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80th Congress, 1st Session
Union Calendar No. 575
House Report No. 1115
REPORT ON
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS AS A
COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATION
INVESTIGATION OF
UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN THE
UNITED STATES
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ^
EIGHTIETH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
Public Law 601
(Section 121, Subsection Q (2))
Printed for the use of the Committee on Un-American Activities
SEPTEMBER 2, 1947
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on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
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JOHN Mcdowell, Pennsylvania JOHN E. RANKIN, Mississippi
RICHARD M. NIXON, California J. HARDIN PETERSON, Florida
RICHARD B. VAIL, Illinois HERBERT C. BONNER, North Carolina
Robert E. Stripling, Chief Inrestigator
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SOth Conokess ) HOUSE OF KEriiEfcJENTATIVES j Report
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REPORT ON CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS AS A COMMUNIST
FRONT ORGANIZATION
November 17, 1917. — Committed to the Committee on the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. Thomas of New Jersey, from the Committee on Un-American
Activities, submitted the following
REPORT
REPORT ON CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
205 EAST FORTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK 17, N. T.
Murray Hill 4-6640
February 15. 1947
HoNOR.\RY Co-chairmen
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Dr. Harry F. Ward
Chairman of the board: Executive director:
George Marshall Milton Kaufman
Trea-surcr: Field director:
Raymond C. Ingersoll Milton N. Kcmnitz
Vice Chairmen
George F. Addes Ira Latimer
Marv McLcod I^othune Stanley Nowak
Rev. Charles A. Hill Lawrence Rivkin
Vincent Sheean
REPORT ON CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Having adopted a line of militant skullduggery against the United
States with the close of World War II, the Communist Tarty has set
up the Civil Rights Congress for the purpose of protecting those of
its members who run afoul of the law. This new project was founded
1
2, CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
at a conference held in Detroit on April 27-28, 1946, effectuating the
merger of the International Labor Defense and the National Federa-
tion for Constitutional Liberties. The latter organizations had been
so badly discredited by repeated exposure as to injure their usefulness
in the newly envisaged campaign of Communist lawlessness. It will
be found, however, that the sponsors of the Civil Rights Congress in
many instances arc the same as those of its predecessor organizations.
It has been a time-honored Communist tactic to set up a hife and
cry for civil liberties precisely at a moment when boldest attacks upon
democracy are intended. Invariably this appeal finds a response
among Communist sympathizers, and ingenuous professional bleeding
hearts, who would rather sacrifice the interests of their country than
dp violence to the Communist conception of civil liberties as applied
to the United States. For some curious reason these standards are
never applied to any territory under the Communist dictatorship.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE
The International Labor Defense was the American section of the
International Red Aid, formed by the Communist International in
1922. It was part of an international network of organizations for the
defense of Communist lawbreakers. In France it was loiown as
Secours Rouge Internationale, in Austria as Osterreiche Rote Hilfe,
in Germany as Internationale Rote Hilfe, in Holland as Internationale
Roode Hulp, and in Spain as El Socorro Rojo Internacional, all oper-
ating under the direction of MOPR with headquarters in Moscow.
The international head of the organization was Helen Stassova,
member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union. Attorney General Francis A. Biddle has properly
designated the International Labor Defense as "the legal arm of the
Communist Party."
Speaking at the foundation meeting of the Civil Rights Congress,
Hon. Vito Marcantonio, president of the International Labor Defense
for about 10 years, pledged to carry on within the new organization,
in harmony with the history and traditions of the International
Labor Defense.
The International Labor Defense has been under investigation by
the Committee on Un-American Activities since 1938 when our com-
mittee was first established. On October 17, 1939, Benjamin Gitlow,
one of the original foimders of the International Labor Defense in 1925,
and one of its leading officials, testified as follows regarding the
character of this organization, which has not changed under its new
label:
International Labor Defense is not a national organization, but an international
organization * * *. In the second place, the International Labor Defense is
not a defense organization in the pure sense of that term; nor is it a civil liberties
defense organization. It is the legal defense organization of the Communist
Party and the Communist International in this covmtry, and serves, also, as a
highly political and propagandist Communist organization. *
BACKGROUND
The ink was scarcely dry on the Stalin-Hitler pact presaging the
disastrous Communist-led strikes in North American Aviation and
1 Hearings of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, vol. 10, p. 5982.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 3
Allis-Chnlmcrs, the peace strikes in universities, and the fulminations
aj2:ainst President Koosevelt as an "imperialist warmonger," v>lieu
Earl Browiler, then general secretary of the Communist Party of the
United States and passport forger, sounded the usual warnings about
the imminent menace to our civil liberties. Speaking at the National
Conference for Civil Liberties in New York City on October 14, 1939,
he declared:
The forces which are moving against American civil liberties are the same forces
which want this war to go on as long as possible for the sake of the profits they
expect to make out of it, and which are preparing to take this country into the
war at an opportune moment * * * the forces involving America in the
senseless destruction and slaughter of the imperialist war strike first of all against
the Communist Party because they sec in it the leader and the symbol of all the
deepest antiwar and peace sentiments of the masses, which they wish to silence
and to crush.'
Thereafter, a maze of organizations \vas spawned for the alleged
purpose of defending civil liberties in general but actually intended
to protect Communist subversion from any penalties under the law.
Among these organizations were the Committee for Citizenship Rights,
the Committee for Civil Rights for Communists, Detroit Bill of Rights
Defense Committee, Greater New York Emergency Conference on
Inalienable Rights, Michigan Civil Rights Federation, Minneapolis
Civil Rights Committee, National Committee for People's Rights,
the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, and numerous
other special committees under various guises. Former Attorney
General Francis A. Biddle characterized the National Federation for
Constitutional Liberties, the chief national organization on this list,
as follows:
The program of the federation parallels closely the Communist Party line of
1940 * * * One of the tactics which they use to attack the (national defense)
program was the emphasis on the threat to civil liberties and the rights of labor
and of minority groups * * * The defenses of Communist leaders such as
Sam Darcy and Robert Wood, party secretaries for Pennsylvania and Oklahoma,
have been major efforts of the federation.^
ANTAGONISM TOWARD THE UNITED STATES
Early in 1945, after the close of World War II, the attitude of the
Soviet Government changed from one of reserved cooperation with
the United States to one of vituperative criticism. This attitude
served to cover its own aggressively expansionist designs. The
Communist parties throughout the world echoed this sentiment and
translated it into positive activities with the United States as the
chief target. The Communist Party, U. S. A. (then known as the
Communist Political Association) was quick to join this procession.
In a resolution of its national board adopted in convention, July
26-28, 1945, dealing mainly with the adoption of the new, belligerent
line, it declared:
American capital supported the war against Nazi Germany, not because of
hatred of fascism or a desire to liberate suffering Europe from the heel of Nazi
despotism, but because it recognized in Hitler Germany a dangerous imperialist
rival * * * They are trying to organize a new cordon sanitaire against the
Soviet Union * * * «
' The Second Imperialist War by Earl Browder (International Publishers, 1940, p. 139).
* Memorandum of Attorney General Francis A. Biddle prepared for use in administration of the mandate
of Public Law 135.
« PoUtical Aflairs, July, 1945. pp. 579, 5«X
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This significant change in approach was expressed in an accentua-
tion of every possible form of civil strife and disruptive interference
with the social, economic, and civic affairs of the Nation, carefully
disguised in the form of a legitimate effort for the rights of labor and
world peace. Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the Communist
Party, U. S. A., recently convicted for contempt of Congress, has
outlined these tasks in specific form in his pamphlet, What Ai^erica
Faces, embodying his speech before the plenary meeting of the National
Committee of the Communist Party held in New York on February
12-15, 1946. He calls for "strike-wage struggles," "growing class con-
sciousness," "a crucial battle against the giant trusts," "fighting spirit
* * * of the workers," "united actions of the Negro and white
workers, as well as of labor and the veterans * * * into a coordi-
nated drive," and insists that "Communists play a key role in helping
shape vital strike strategy arid tactics." He reminds his followers that
any wage settlements made "can result only in a temporary stalemate
or armed truce." He holds out the fear of "considerable unemploy-
ment and inflation," and "a great crisis" leading "to a new world war
as the way out." He declares that the "American working people will
resist" and "fight" these measures. He looks forward to a "definite
upsurge" in mass activities and calls upon the Communists "to prepare
in time to organize and lead these movements." He calls for a "mass
movement which can curb the monopolists" and "the imperialist
war makers." He applauds "state-wide demonstrations of labor, the
veterans * * * j^ Albany, Harrisburg, Sacramento, Lansing,
and Cleveland" and "the powerful demonstrations of the GI's."
From the general tone of these declarations it should be clear that we
are faced with another Stalin-Hitler pact period in which Communist
hostility to the United States finds expression in a new and more
intensified form. Perhaps we had better call this the period of the
STALIN-Dimitroff-Tito-Rakosi-Pauker-Fischer-Togliatti-Thorez-
Dennis axis with Russia as its chief pole, the period of a strongly
reactivated Communist International, in which the Communists are
clearly out to raise all the trouble they can. It is a period in which
the Communists have drawn upon themselves the following well-
deserved characterization of J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation:
The Communist Party of the United States is a fifth column if there ever was
one. It is far better organized than were the Nazis in occupied countries prior
to their capitulation. They are seeking to weaken America just as they did in
their era of obstruction when they were aUned with the Nazis. Their goal is
the overthrow of our Government.^
Clearly expressed is the underlying outlook of hostility toward the
American Government by Civil Rights Congress spokesmen. Joseph
Nahem, a Communist veteran who took a leading part in the GI
demonstrations in the Pacific area, who was arrested on March 15,
1946, for picketing the New York City Hall on the occasion of the
visit of the Honorable Winston Churchill, and who was duly defended
by the Civil Rights Congress, has formulated this approach as follows:
The state is an instrument of direct and indirect oppression of one class by
another; that the paraphernalia of the state, such as the army, the police and
the courts are utilized today by the bourgeoisie for curbing, restricting, and openly
suppressing the working class and its parties: These are the cornerstone principles
• Statement of J. Edgar Hoover before the Committee on Un-American Activities, March 26, 1947.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 5
of ^^a^xism-Leninism. ♦ ♦ * We urge (liat full support be given to the
Civil Rights Congress, which has taken over the aijpeal."
Gerliart Eisler put the matter a little more bluntly. Speaking: of
the GovcrnmcMit which is finally l)rin.<rin<j: him to justice for passport
frauds ami contempt of Conirress, which constitute a meager portion
of his crimes, he declared: "I always had only contempt for my
jailers." '
PROTECTIVE COMMUNIST MEASURES
Manifestly this incendiary program reciuires the establishment of a
protective buH'er as a safcguartl against legal prosecution. It was
necessary to exploit America's traditional regard for civil hberties in
order to allow free play for outright subversion. William Z. Foster,
chairman of the Communist Party, United States of America, has
clearly described this strategy for protecting Communist leaders and
organizers as follows:
In every strike the question of defending the civil rights * * * of the
* * * union leaders constitutes an im])ortant problem * * *. Defense
activities are not only a matter of court action, but especially of mass pres-
sure * * * against the government and the employers * * * Attacks
on the civil rights of the strikers * * * must be militantly resisted * * *
through the holding of mass meetings, sending of delegations to the state legisla-
tures and Congress. Wlien injunctions are issued * * * the strikers should
follow the traditional American (sic) trade-union policy of ignoring such court
orders * * *_ Against * * * violators of civil rights * * * the
strikers should make active use of all available political institutions (pp. 240, 241).
It's about time, therefore, that rod-baiting be knocked on the head in the
American labor movement. This Hitlerism slander campaign should be recog-
nized for what it is, the spreading of employer-inspired, imperialist warmonger
propaganda in the ranks of the workers (p. 358).*
Although Milton Kaufman, executive secretary of the Civil Rights
Congress, has issued the usual denial that "the Civil Rights Congress
is inspired by or acts as a front for any political party, including the
Communist Party," the Congress has mirrored the Communist
approach to the letter. In fact, Mr. Kaufman admitted that his
organization would not shrink "from the most vigorous defense of
Communists" and that it would disdain to join in "the new national
sport of Red-hunting." ^
TECHNIQUE OF DISTORTION
Applying the recognized military strategy of taking the offensive
against the "enemy" (as the Communists now refer to the American
Government), the Civil Rights Congress does not limit itself to a
simple defense of those under charges. In fact, its pronouncements
indicate that such a defense is by no means its primary purpose.
Instead, this organization concentrates mainly upon attacking the
American Government in the most virulent manner with no regard
for the truth. Sponsors who have lent their names to the organization
in the interests of civil liberties find themselves listed as endorsing the
most distorted assaults upon the United States — assaults characteristic
of the slanderous attacks emanating from the Soviet Union and its
• Daily Worker, May 20, 1946.
' Pamphlet, Gerhart Eisler, My Side of the Story, published by the Civil Rights Congress, March 1947,
p. A-2.
8 American Trade Unionism, by William Z. Foster (International Publishers, 1947J
' New York Times, March 13, 1947. p 20.
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agents throughout the world. The "Urgent Summons to a Congress
on Civil Rights" held in Detroit on April 27 and 28, 1946, furnishes
some glaring examples of this approach:
Today's drive to subvert our democratic liberties is well-organized, well-
heeled, insidious. * * * -p^ig great war against fascism is won, but the
victory is far from secure. * * * Reactionary forces, based on war-rich
monopolies, the die-hard union breakers, Red-bajters, and race haters, command
the largest surviving fifth column in the world. They are turning the "weapons
and methods of fascism against the American people. They are prepared to
destroy our democracy', even to the establishment of outright fascism.
Outlining its aims and program, the Civil Rights Congress declares
that —
All aspects of our political life today are affected by the growing offensive of
those who seek to destroy the United Nations unity and who would plunge the
world into a new war. These enemies of the peace in our country cannot achieve
their sinister purpose unless they split and demoralize the democratic forces.
Therefore, they grow more arrogant in their attacks on labor, on the Negro
people, and other racial and religious minorities; the Hitlerite tactic of Red-
baiting is reaching new heights.'"
In its call to a conference on April 13, 1946, the New York Initiat-
ing Committee preparing for the Civil Rights Congress on April
27-28, announced blandly that —
We are getting a taste of the divide-and-conquer technique which in Germany
led to fascism, to the human slaughterhouses at Dachau and JNIaideneck — and
to World War II.
The same pamphlet calls attention to an alleged "Fascist offensive
* * * on our lives and liberties * * * qj-^ ^j^g minds of our
children" to a "Hitler's white supremacy technique * * * of
gun, whip, and rope."
In its May 29, 1946, issue of Action Now, official organ of the Civil
Rights Congress, referrmg to the Presidential message on the threat-
ened I'ailroad strike, we find the headline "Truman bill means fascism
in America."
In his speech before the Civil Rights Congress in Detroit on April
27, 1946, George Marshall, former chairman of the National Feder-
ation for Constitutional Liberties, now under indictment after being
cited for contempt of Congress, sounded the followmg dire note:
What has happened since VJ-day is truly ominous. We hear the tread of
approaching storm troopers and as of today so close that we must close our ranks
to fight — right now.
Referring to the South, where both the AFL and CIO have sub-
stantial local unions, the resolutions committee of the Civil Rights
Congress at its Detroit convention in 1946 declared:
The Bill of Rights has been treated as a scrap of paper in most of the Southern
States insofar as the common people, black and white, are concerned. The
right to vote, to join a union, to speak, to write, to move about freely, to a fair
trial, are only hollow phrases to a majority of the people in the South.
Other examples of the type of vicious propaganda ladled out by the
Civil Rights Congress and reiterated by Communist Parties through-
out the world are the following:
LYNCH TERROR STALKS AMERICA * * * Will You Be Next? "
'« Worker, May 12, 1946, p. 7m.
" Civil Kiglits Congress leaflet advertising a meeting on August 28, 1946, cosponsored by the Communist
Party of the West Side in New York City.
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Advcrtisins: a mootini: in Ix-hnlf of (rcilinrt Eislcr. intornntioiinl
Coiniuunist agent, one of Moscow's "brain trustors" in its subversive
activities in the United States and charged by his own sister with
being a "terrorist type" responsible for tlie death of a numl)er of
opponents of the Stabn regime, the Civil Rights Congress declares
in the Daily Worker of March G, 1947 (p. 8):
Gorhart Eislcr was denied every civil riRht by the FBI, the Department of
Justice, a Congressional Committee. That means YOUR democratic liberties are
endangered.
Again on February 15, 1047, the Civil Rights Congress in its circular
letter to Congressmen describes Eisler's appearance before the House
Committee on Un-American Activities as follows:
The Chairman then refused to permit him to read, before being sworn, a one-
page statement of protest of his arrest.
It is worth recounting the true facts in order to appreciate fully-
the Communist technique of distortion. Authoritative testimony be-
fore this committee supported by documentary evitlence shows that
Eisler, under the various aliases of Edwards, Brown, Hans Berger, and
Samuel Liptzen, using forged passports, carried on his nefarious activi-
ties without molestation in 1933 and then from 1941 to 1947. Re-
fusing to be sworn in until he had read his "three minute" statement,
Eisler promptly distributed to the press a prepared statement of 23
pages, now reprinted as a pamphlet and widelv circulated under the
title "Gerhart Eisler— My Side of the Story'." On December 27,
1946, he was granted the privilege of the air over the WOR network
affording him an opportunity to voice his views before a Nation-wide
radio audience. Since his citation for contempt by Congress, he has
been addressing meetings in various parts of the country exploiting
to the full the unique opportunity we have aflorded him as the only
agent of the Communist International to be allowed to address public
meetings in the United States without resort to subterfuge — all this
under a government which is charged with "turning the weapons and
methods of fascism against the American people." Convicted by a
Federal court and under $20,000 bail, he continues his activities, writ-
ing articles for the Communist press, addresshig meetings, and acting
as adviser in chief of the Communist Party of the United States,
Commenting upon American indulgence toward him, Eisler declared
derisively at one of his meetings, "Whoever heard of releasing an atom-
bomb spy, foreign agent, an overthrower of government, and a dan-
gerous enemy alien, all in one, for $20,000?" '^ On another occasion
he admitted that he had been well treated and well-fed at the Federal
House of Detention.'^ Certainly his Soviet fatherland would not have
been guilty of sudi overweening lenity.
The coddling policy shown toward Gerhart Eisler is a glaring demon-
stration of the ineptitude of our law enforcement agencies toward
Communist law violators.
In July 1940 the New York l)ranch of the Civil Rights Congress
entered upon a campaign of vilification against the police department
of that city under the slogan of "Halt Anti-Negro Terror," and
"End New^ York Police Brutality." It charged "a deliberate prov-
a Dailv Worker, April 24. 1947, p. 12.
« New York Times, April 17, liM7.
H. Kept. 1115, 80-1 2
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ocation by members of the department to incite riots." '* This was
condemned by Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander as a
"campaign of calumny." In a letter dated August 9, 1946, former
Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin refused an invitation to a civil
rights meeting on the ground that this committee's attack on the
police commission was "completely unwarranted," and that its
attitude was "one of complete irresponsibility and a fundapiental
lack of judgment as to the true relation of facts." The New York
World Telegram in its issue of August 9, 1946 (p. 14) called this
campaign of the Communists "a new low in civic irresponsibility
and deceit."
STATUS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IN AMERICA
It is high time that certain phases of our way of life, which we have
too long taken for granted, be restated so that we may not become
oblivious of their merits in the face of Communist distortion. What
about the warmongering charge? We are leaning over backward
in our efforts to arrive at peaceful relations with the Soviet Union,
some claiming that we are still guilty of appeasement. We have
disarmed almost to the point of dangerous impotence. We have no
designs for expansion or accession of territorial claims as a result of
our recent victory.
What are the sober facts? Contrary to the practice now being
enforced at the point of the bayonet in Soviet-controlled areas we are
not suppressing political parties — even the Communist Party, despite
extreme provocation, has not been outlawed. We have not interfered
with free elections. Communists and their stooges are running for
office and are even elected in some localities. Contrary to the practice
in Soviet-controlled territory, our trade-unions are free and inde-
pendent organizations constituting an influential section of our body
politic. We have no concentration camps or slave labor. Our
press is uncensored and we are still devotedly enforcing the right to
freedom of speech, press, assembly, travel, and worship, the right to
trial by jury, habeas corpus, the right to accept or relinquish a job,
to own property, freedom, from police surveillance, and the countless
other blessings of a democratic society which are absent under a
Communist dictatorship.
The New York Times has said the following in regard to the Ameri-
can attitude toward the Negro, which is a favorite topic of Communist
vilification:
Around the turn of the century the Negro lynchmgs in this country were close
to 100 annually, and about the same time the Russian czars were sending to
Siberia perhaps 10,000 political exiles annually. In the last dozen years our
Negro lynchings have been perhaps five a year, and the inlnates of the Soviet
concentration camps have .been estimated at 10,000,000 or higher.'*
There can be no doubt that the standard of living of the average
Negro in the United States is far higher than that of the average
Soviet worker, under the Communist dictatorship.
The incendiary character of the Civil Rights Congress propaganda
is forcefully demonstrated by contrast with the latest estimate made
by the American Civil Liberties Union for the period ending July
i< Daily Worker, August 8, 1946.
» New York Times, June 19, 1947, p. 20.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 9
1946. It must be rcinpniboroil, in tins coniioction, tliat the ACLU
has gone so far in its preoccupation with civil hherties as to defend
both Communists and Fascists, sometimes witli an ahnost complete
disregard for consiilerations of national security involved. We quote
from this extremely liberal source:
Wholly unlike the period foIiowinK World War I, the conversion from war to
peace in 1945 brought no marked chanu;es in tiie exercise of American hherties
affecting citlicr the majority or minorities. The voluntary wartime censorshijis
of press and ratlio were at once removed; * * * restrictions were gradually
removed on enemy aliens * * *_ The reason for this striking dilferonce
between the aftermaths of the First and Second World Wars is to be found in
the comparatively slight reconl of repressive measures in World War II. Only
a few score jicrsons had been prosecuted for speech or publication. Public debate
and discussion had remained unrestricted * * *. No wartime hysteria had
marked the country. Organized labor had become too strongly entrenched to
permit wholesale attacks upon the trade-union movement * * * Indeed,
the gains in civil liberties which had surprisingly marked the war j'cars continued."
ORIGIN, EXTENT, AND PURPOSE
According to its own pronouncements, the Civil Rights Congress
appears to be dedicated to a most meritorious cause, which is described
as follows:
The CRC is a national membership organization formed by hundreds of national
and community groups from all parts of the country to provide a well-organized,
unified program of action to defend and extend the democratic rights of every
American.
It should be noted in this connection that the Civil Rights Congress
is not recorded as defemling any but Communist or Communist front
cases and that the phrase "extend the democratic rights of every
American" is time-honored Communist double talk for the idea of
utilizing the opportunities afforded by our democracy for the further-
ance of Communist propaganda and the ultimate establishment of a
Communist dictatorship.
The Detroit conference of April 27-28 was preceded by a conference
held on April 13, 1946 (Thomas Jefferson Day) at the Fraternal Club-
house, at 110 West Forty-eighth Street, New York City. This Iniild-
ing is owned by the International Workers Ozxler, cited by former
Attorney General Biddle as "one of the strongest Communist organ-
izations." The conference was called by an "Initiating Committee,"
whose origin has never been disclosed. The call assured all and sundry
that "An enemy offensive is now being waged against the common
people of the United States — labor, Negroes, Jewish people, the
foreign-born, progressives, and all their organizations — in a relentless
drive to establish fascism in our own country." The New York
meeting proceeded to elect an organizing committee. Following the
Detroit conference, Meyer E. Stern, director of District 6 of the
United Packinghouse Workers (CIO), announced through the Daily
Worker of May 9, 1946, page 4, the formation of the Civil Rights
Congress of New^ York, formerly loiown as the New York Conference
on Civil Rights. A meeting had previously been held for this purpose
at the Hotel Capitol on April 25.
As to the character of the "national and community groups" which
constitute the Civil Rights Congress, the pronouncement goes on to
state that:
<• From War to TcAce, .\merlcan Liberties, I9i&-Vi, published bj the American Civil Liberties Uaioa,
170 5tb Ave., New York 10, N. Y., July 1M6, pp. 5. 6.
10 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Into the CRC have been merged the National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties and the International Labor Defense. The Civil Rights Federation in
Detroit and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee immediately affiliated with
the CRC. * * * Local organizations which have merged into the New York
CRC include Veterans Against Discrimination and the Metropolitan Inter-faith
and Interracial Coordinating Council.
Officially endorsed by the Civil Eights Congress is the newly formed
Eisler defense committee, defending Gerhart Eisler, American repre-
sentative of the allegedly "dissolved" but extremely active Communist
International. The congress also voted to reconstitute an Abolish
Peonage Committee, claiming in its customary restrained fashion that
"The crime of peonage or debt slavery is still rampant in our land."
Also represented at the CKC were the Nassau County (N. Y.) Con-
ference for Human Rights, the St. Louis Committee for a Fair Em-
ployment Practice Ordinance, the United Citizens for Democracy of
Houston, Tex., the Mass Movement League of Toledo, Ohio, the
Wisconsin Committee for a Permanent FEPC, the New York Com-
mittee for Justice in Freeport, the Southern Negro Youth Congress,
and the National Negro Congress. Other typical regional organiza-
tions are the Texas Civil Rights Congress, West Bronx Civil Rights
Congress, Albany Civil Rights Congress, Upper West Side Civil
Rights Congress, Illinois Civil Liberties Committee, Eisler Defense
Committee, Greenwich Village Civil Rights Congress, etc.
Of the above organizations the following have been cited as
Communist front organizations by former Attorney General Francis
A. Biddle: International Labor Defense, the "legal arm of the
Communist Party"; the National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties; Michigan Civil Rights Federation; National Negro Con-
gress. The following have been previously cited as such by the
Committee on Un-American Activities on one or more occasions:
International Labor Defense, National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties, National Negro Congress, Michigan Civil Rights Federa-
tion, Southern Negro Youth Congress. The Chicago Civil Liberties
Committee should not be confused with the American Civil Liberties
Union, from which it seceded in repudiation of the policies of the latter
organization. All merged into the new organization pledged by the
former head of the International Labor Defense to carry on the history
of the latter, notorious. Communist front.
The Detroit conference claimed 415 delegates with 38 observers from
23 States and the District of Columbia. Of this number, 258 came from
the Midwest, 35 from the East, 70 from the West, and several from the
South. It should be noted, however, that the ringleaders lilce Alilton
Kaufman, George Marshall, Louis Colman, and others came from
New York where Communist Party headquarters are located.
Conference figures show 119 labor delegates, 2 from fraternal organiza-
tions, '26 Negroes, 21 from civic and political organizations, 9 from
rehgious organizations, 20 women organizations, 24 foreign-born, 5
youth, 3 veterans, 3 educators, and 5 lawyers. The decision to form
the Civil Rights Congress was adopted unanimously and a continua-
tions committee (a term typical of Communist front organization
procedure) was authorized to pick an executive committee. ^^
Dues are set at $1 per year for general membership, $3 for asso-
ciates, $5 for subscribers, $10 for sustaining members, and $25 for
supporters.
" Daily Worker, May 12, 1947, p. 7m.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 11
Subsequently the Civil Rights Congress pledged itself "to act
against the Schwellenbach proposal to outlaw the Communist
Party," '* denounced "punitive measures directed against the Com-
munist Party," opposed proposed loyalty investigations of Federal
employees as "the most dangerous and undemocratic proceeding that
could be conceived," ^^ urged President Truman "to effect immediate
release of Gerhart Eisler," ^^ and announced that it would "undertake
full responsibility for the defense, in and out of court, of Eugene
Dennis, general secretary of the Comminiist Party, and Leon
Josephson," -^ a leading party member identified with espionage
activities and passport frauds.
Among its activities is also the defense of Howard Fast's Tom Paine^
with a demand that it be restored for use in the public high schools.^^
This book is a fictionahzed, sugar-coated, but thinly disguised, exposi-
tion of Communist theory and practice including the advocacy of
overthrow of government by fofce and violence. Its clear implication
is that we must carry over the revolutionary tactics used against the
British Government m colonial times as described by Mr. Fast, to the
present against our own Government. The following passages are
typical:
Quoting Benjamin Rush: "We had no precedent, but only a theory, and that
theory is that stren"!'.! Ues in the hands of the armed masses. * * * B^it
there was never in this world, a technique for revolution. * * * The strength
of many is revolution" (p. 116).
Quoting Tom Paine: "Revolution is a method of force by a party not in power
as we understand it, by the party of the people, which has never been in power
in tlio history of this earth" (p. 197).
Then, with startling suddenness, it came to an end. All the carefully organized
revolutionary cells, miners in Wales, cutlers in Sheffield, the dock workers at
Liverpool and Tync, the potters and the wheelwrights — all those who had looked
for Paine's leadershiiD — were cracked wide open by the government * * * be-
fore the thin threads of revolution were even in shape to be drawn together (p..
247).
The Civil Rights Congress has been active in behalf of Paul Robeson,
who was denied the right to speak in Albany and Peoria. The
Albany branch was headed by Mrs. Vivian Schatz, with headquarters
at 63 South Pearl Street. Paul Robeson will be remembered as one
who has been outspoken in his defense of the Communist Party on
numerous occasions as cited in the following issues of the Daily
Worker: Julv 23, 1940, page 1 ; March 5, 1941, page 2; March 18, 1945,
page 3; April 22, 1947, page 5; April 30, 1947, page 11. He has
defended Gerhart Eisler and Leon Josephson, active international
Communist agents.^^ \^Tiile refusing to afhrm or deny membership
in the Communist Party, he has participated in official Communist
gatherings on March 17, 1941, March 17, 1947, and on May 8, 1947.
He has long been an ardent apologist for the Soviet Union, where his
son resided and was educated.
In Los Angeles, the Civil Rights Division of the Mobilization for
Democracy affihated with the Civil Rights Congress, cooperated
with the Progressive Citizens of America in seeking to reverse the
decision of the directors of the Hollywood Bowl barring Henry A..
Wallace from speaking.^*
<» Dailv Worker, March 15, 1917, p. IZ
i» Daily Worker, May 19, 1947, p. 3.
*> PM, March 3, 1947, p. 20in.
>' Daily Worker, May 23, 1947, p. 3.
« Daily Worker, March 20, 1947; Civil Rights Congress release, March 11, 1947.
» Dailv Worker, April 2^, 1947, p. 4.
" DaUy Worker, AprU 28, 1947, p. 4.
12
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
INTERLOCKING RELATIONSHIPS
The fact that the Civil Eights Congress is not based primarily upon
a desire to defend civil rights is brought out sharply by the number of
its sponsors and officers who have been associated in one way or
another with the American Peace Mobilization, formed at the time
of the Stalin-Hitler pact in order to sabotage our national defense
program and culminating in a mass picket line around the White
House lasting until a few days before Adolf Hitler attacked Russia.
A Mst of those 43 individuals to be found in both organizations follows:
INDIVIDUALS CONNECTED WITH BOTH THE CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS AND THE
AMERICAN PEACE MOBILIZATION
Henderson, Donald
Hughes, Langston
Jurich, J. F.
Lee, Canada
Leicester, Robert
Marshall, George
McMichael, Jack
McWilliams, Carey
Merrill, Lewis
Oakes, Grant W.
Powell, Hazel Scott
Quill, Michael J.
Rathborne, Mervyn
Rautenstrauch, Walter
Adelman, Meyer
Bay, Howard
Berne, Lewis Alan
Billings, Warren K.
Burt, Sam
Connelly, Philip M.
Connolly, Eugene P.
Curran, Joseph
Dehn, Adolph
DeLacv, Hugh
Dodd, Bella V.
Dutto, Frank
Emspak, Julius
Gainer, Morris
Eammett, Dashiel
It will be remembered that during the days of the infamous Soviet-
Nazi pact, the Communists built protective organizations known as
the National Emergency Conference, the National Emergency for
Democratic Rights, which culminated in the National Federation for
Constitutional Liberties. It cannot be accidental that the following
83 individuals supporting one or more of these organizations have
also aided the Civil Rights Congress:
Refregier, Anton
Reich, Harry
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Earl
Robinson, Reid
Selly, Joseph P.
Shore, Jerome
Soyer, Raphael
Stewart, Donald Ogden
Ward, Courtnev D.
Ward, Harry F.
Weinstock, Louis
Wilkerson, Doxey
Yergan, Max
Ackley, Charles B.
Adamic, Louis
Allen, James Egert
Anderson, William A.
Arndt, Elmer J. F.
Balokovic, Zlatko
Bay, Howard
Beil, Thomas
Benet, William Rose
Benson, Elmer A.
Berne, Lewis Alan
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Bowie, W. Russel
Bradley, Lyman R.
Brewer, James L.
Brodsky, Joseph R.
Brown, Charlotte H.
Burnham, Louis E.
Colman, Louis
Connolly, Eugene
Corwin, Norman
Curran, Joseph
DeLacy, Hugh
Dickerson, Earl B.
Dodd, Bella V.
Dunn, Robert W.
Fairchild, Henry P.
Feuchtwanger, Lion
Field, R. D.
Flynn, Elizabeth G.
Fritchman, Stephen H.
Gallagher, Leo
Gimbel, Elinor S.
Gregg, J. A.
Hammett, Dashiel
Harvey, Arthur J.
Henderson, Donald
Hill, Charles A.
Hughes, Langston
Jack, Hulan E.
Jurich, J. F.
Kahn, Albert E.
Kemnitz, Milton
Kent, Rockwell
King, Carol
Marshall, George
Mather, Kirtlcy F.
Matthieson, F. O.
McConnell, Francis J.
McMichael, Jack
McWilliams, Carey
Merrill, Lewis
Nordstrand, Josephine
Oakes, Grant W.
Parsons, Edward L.
Pettus, Terry
Poteat, Edwin McNeill
Pressman, Lee
Quill, Michael J.
Rathborne, Mervyn
Rautenstrauch, Walter
Refregier, Anton
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Edward G.
Robinson, Reid
Schieffelin, William J.
Schlesinger, A. M.
Schneirla, T. C.
Selly, Joseph P.
Sorrell, Herbert K.
Spofford, William B.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Stern, Bernhard J.
Stevens, Hope R.
Stevei:ison, A. E.
Stewart, Donald Ogden
Struik, Dirk J.
Talbott, Glenn J.
Ward, Harry F.
Weber, Max
Wliite, Wayne
Wilkerson, Doxey
Yergan, Max
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
13
Gallagher, Leo
Guinicr, Ewart
Hammctt, Dashiel
Henderson, Donald
Jack, Hulan E.
Jurich, J. F.
Kent, Rockwell
LeSeiier, Arthur
McWilliams, Carey
Merrill, Lewis
Oakes, Grant W,
Quill, Michael J.
Rathborne, Mervyn
Rautenstrauch, Walter
Reich, Harry
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Reid
Shore, Jerome
Smith, Ferdinand
Spofford, William B.
Stefansson, Vilh.jalmur
Stevens, Hope R.
Ward, Courtney D.
Ward, Harry F.
Weber, Max
Yergan, Max
Eooxploiting: a llinitcd circle of pro-Communist sponsors, the Civil
Rights Congress counts for support upon the following 40 individuals
also found on statements or committees supporting the release of
Earl Browder, former general secretary of the Communist Party,
U. S. A.:
Adelman, Meyer
Alexander, Raymond Pace
Bay. Howard
Chodorov, Edward
Collins, Cliarles
Connelly, Philip M.
Connolly, Eugene P.
Curran, Joseph
DeLacy, Hugh
Dickerson, Earl B.
Dunn, Robert W.
Flynn, Elizabeth G.
Fritchman, Stephen H.
Gainer, Morris
The Civil Rights Congress has received the support of numerous
Communist front organizations and has cooperated with such organ-
izations on frequent occasions, of which the following are typical:
On August 28, 1946, the Upper West Side Civil Rights Congress of
New York City held a meeting at the Pythian Temple, 135 West
Seventieth Street, which was cosponsored by the Communist Party,
West Side; American Labor Party; American Youth for Democracy;
United Negro and Allied Veterans of America; and the International
Workers Order, Lodge 572.
Tickets for the Civil Rights Congress meeting on March 20, 1947,
in behalf of Gerhart Eisler were on sale at Club 65 Bookshop, 13
Astor Place; International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue; Jefferson
Bookshop, 575 Sixth Avenue; Forty-fourth Street Book Fair, 133
West Forty-fourth Street; Worker's Bookshop, 50 East Thirteenth
Street; American Youth for Democracy, 150 Nassau Street; the
German-American, 305 Broadway — all well-knowm Communist
centers.^
Participating organizations in the Eisler defense committee, an
offshoot of the Civil Rights Congress, are the following Communist-
dominated fronts: American Committee for Protection of Foreign
Born; Friends of the German- American ; German- American Labor
Council. ^^
Subscribers to the pro-Communist gossip and scandal sheet, In
Fact, have been placed on the mailing list of the Civil Rights Con-
gress.^
On August 1, 1946, the Daily Worker announced a Madison Square
Park demonstration in which the Civil Rights Congress, the Com-
munist Party, and the American Labor Party participated. John
Williamson, member of the top secretariat of the Communist Party,
U. S. A., was a speaker.
People's Songs, a group which has been identified by its appearance
on the programs of Communist organizations, furnished the talent
for a Civil Rights Congress affair on September 15, 1946.
« Daily Worker. March fi, 19J7, p. 8.
« Pamphlcr, Fi?ler riii= Back, published by the German-American, 1947, p. 18.
n New York World Telegram, December 11, 1946.
14 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
KEY INDIVIDUALS
The character of the Civil Rights Congress is amply demonstrated
by the Communist affiliations of its leading officers and supporters:
Joseph R. Brodsky, member of initiating committee and New York
board of directors of Civil Rights Congress; cited by Benjamin
Gitlow as "a member of the Communist Party hokling a position of
the highest confidence * * * the party's main legal ad-
viser * * * yri^Q handled confidential matters and money
matters";-^ listed as pay-off man for Moscow by the British Gov-
ernment;-^ attorney for the International Labor Defense, the' Inter-
national Workers Order; attornev for the Communist Party in 193G,
1940, 1942, 1946, and 1947. After his death on July 28, \947, the
Communist Party announced that he had been a charter member of
the organization. In September. 1939 Brodsky had denied party
membership under oath.
Louis Colman, member, initiating committee; executive secretary,
New York branch; member of national staff of Civil Rights Congress;
assistant national secretary, International Labor Defense, the "legal
arm of the Communist Party"; supporter of Communist candidate
for President in 1932.
Thelma Dale, member, initiating committee of Civil Rights Con-
gress ; member, New York State committee of the Communist Party,
U. S. A.,-in 1 945 ; speakerf or the International Labor Defense, Japanese-
American Committee for Democracy, Congress of American Women.
Hugh De Lacy, convention speaker, sponsor of Civil Rights Con-
gress; cited as one w^ho is "beloved, long beloved, and deeply cherished
by the Communist Party" ;^'' signer of protest against barring Com-
munist Party from ballot in 1940; defends Communists Sam Darcy,
Harry Bridges, William Schneiderman, Morris U. Schappes, Earl
Browder, Ernest Fox, Oklahoma Communist Party leaders; closely
associated during a plenary meeting of the executive committee of the
Communist Party, U. S. A., in January 1944 with Carl Reeve and
Henry Huff, chairman and secretary of the Communist Party of the
State of Washington, respectively.
Julius Emspak, member, initiating committee of Civil Rights Con-
gress; cited by Louis F.Budenz as "Comrade Juniper," a secret member
of the Communist Party, U. S. A., in 1947; sponsor of the American
Peace Mobilization and its successor, the Win-the-Peace Conference.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, sponsor, Civil Rights Congress; mem-
ber, national committee. Communist Party, U. S. A.; and head of a
number of committees set up to defend Communists.
Stephen H. Fritchman, sponsor of Civil Rights Congress; ousted
as editor of the Christian Register because of charges of Communist
sympathies; supporter of the following Communist fronts: Congress
of Youth, Committee To Defend America by Keeping out of War,
North American Spanish-Aid Committee, New Alasscs, Joint Anti-
Fascist Refugee Committee, Win-the-Pcace Conference, American
Committee for Protection of Foreign Born; "sponsored no less than
22 pro-Soviet organizations"; ^^ signer, Communist Party election
petition, August 22, 1940.
2' HoarinRS of the Spocial CommittPe on TTn-Amorfnan Activitios, vol. 7, p. 4554.
w Doc'iinipnts Il'ustratinc the Hostilp Activitios of thn Soviet (iovnrnn'ont anri th^^ Third Intornational
Against Orcat Britain. Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Command Paper No.
2874. 1927.
3o,Concrewional Record, December 7, 1945, p. 11876.
" Congressional Record, May 28, 1947, p. A2680.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 15
Leo Gallagher, sponsor of Civil Rights Congress; Communist
candidate in Los Angeles in 1933, 1934, 1938; attorney for the Com-
munist Party, 1934, 1940; attorney for the International Labor
Defense, 1930, 1934, 1936, 1937; subject of disbarment proceedings in
193G.
Donald Henderson, sponsor of Civil Rights Congress; Communist
Party oflicial and writer for the Communist press; expelled from
faculty for Communist activities in Cohmibia University in 1933;
signer of statement in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Gerhart
Eisler, Sam Darcy, Eugene Dennis, Luis Carlos Prestes, George
Dimitrov; member of numerous front organizations.
Langston Hughes, sponsor of Civil Rights Congi-ess; member,
Communist Party, U. S. A.; signer of statement in behalf of Com-
munists George Dimitrov, William Z. Foster, Don West, Benjamin J.
Davis, Jr.; contributor to the Communist press.
J. F, JuRicH, sponsor of Civil Rights Congress; signer of statement
in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Sam Darcy, Harry Bridges,
and Communists in the Army.
Albert E. Kahn, member, initiating committee. Civil Rights
Congress; New York State Communist Party leader; signer of state-
ment in behalf of Communists Gerhart Eisler, George Dimitrov;
editorially associated with the following Communist publications:
The Hour, New Currents, Jewish Life, New Masses.
Milton Kaufman, executive secretary. Civil Rights Congress;
leader of left-wing in the American Newspaper Guild; signer of
statement defending the Conununist Party, April 16,1947; sponsor of
the following Conununist fronts: American League for Peace and
Democracy, Joint Committee for Trade-Union Rights, Greater New
York Emergency Conference on Inalienable Rights.
Jack McMichael, member, mitiating committee, Civil Rights
Congress; defended the Communist Party on October 28, 1940,
December 19, 1940, March 5, 1941, March 18, 1945, April 29, 1947,
May 20, 1947; signer of statement in behalf of Communists Earl
Browder, Gerhart Eisler, Morris U. Schappes, Sam Darcy; supporter
of the following Communist fronts: American Peace Mobilization,
American Youth Congress.
Herbert March, sponsor. Civil Rights Congress; member, na-
tional committee. Communist Party; former organizer, Young
Commmiist League.
George ^Iarshall, chairman of the board of the Civil Rights Con-
gress; signer of statement in behalf of Communists — ^Alrs. Raissa
Browder, Luis Carlos Prestes, Gerhart Eisler; signer of statement
defendinfi: the Communist Party on August 8, 1940, March 5, 1941,
March 18, 1945, April 16, 1947; cited for contempt of Congress.
Saul Mills, sponsor. Civil Rights Congress; signer of statement in
behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Morris U. Schappes, and Com-
munists in the armed forces; opposes President Truman's loyalty
program; supporter of the following Communist fronts: American
Peace M^obilization, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, Wash-
ington Committee for Democratic Action, Stage for Action.
Samuel A. Neuburger, member, initiating committee, and New
York director, Civil Rights Congress; attorney for Communist de-
fendants, October 1940, May 1947; attorney for International Labor
Defense.
H. Kept. 1115, 80-1-
16 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Grant W. Oakes, sponsor, Civil Rights Congress; signer of state-
ment in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Jack Johnstone ; signer
of statement in defense of Communist Party, March 18, 1945, May-
25, 1947; supporter of Communist publications Daily Worker, Chicago
Star; sponsor, American Peace Mobilization and Chicago May Day
Committee.
Irving Potash, sponsor, New York Civil Rights Congress ; member,
political committee and national board, Communist Party.
Michael J. Quill, sponsor. Civil Rights Congress; cited by former
members of the Com.munist Party as a fellow member; signer of state-
ment in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Simon Gerson, Morris
U. Schappes, George Dimitrov; supporter of following Communist
fronts: American Peace Mobilization, Jewish People's Committee,
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, American League for Peace
and Democracy, International Labor Defense, Washington Committee
for Democratic Action, Am_erican Committee for Protection of Foreign
Born, National Negro Congress.
Walter Rautenstrauch, member, mitiating committee. Civil
Rights Congress; signer of statement in behalf of Communists Luis
Carlos Prestes, Harry Bridges, George Dimitrov, Earl Browder; sup-
porter of the following Communist fronts: American Peace Mobiliza-
tion, American League for Peace and Democracy, American Committee
for Protection of Foreign Born, American Com.mittee for Democracy
and Intellectual Freedom, American Youth Congress, Council for
Pan-American Democracy, Committee for Citizenship Rights, Inde-
pendent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions,
Jefferson School of Social Science, League of American Writers, New
Masses, School for Democracy, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm.ittee.
Earl Robinson, also known as Robert Earl, sponsor. Civil Rights
Congress; furnished music for Com.munist Party according to Daily
Worker of January 20, 1938, February 9, 1938, January 30, 1939,
December 20, 1942, January 20, 1947; acted in behalf of Communists
Ella Reeve Bloor, Harry Bridges, Morris U. Schappes; supported the
following Communist fronts: Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American
Artists School, American Friends of the Chinese People, American
Peace Mobilization, China Aid Council, International Labor Defense,
International Workers Order, League of American Writers, National
Council of American-Soviet Friendship, New Masses, School for
Democracy, Soviet Russia Today, United American Artists, American
Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, People's Songs, Jefferson
School of Social Science, and the Young Communist League.
Reid Robinson, sponsor. Civil Rights Congress; signer of statement
in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Harry Bridges; signer of
statement defending the Communist Party, September 24, 1940, and
March 18, 1945; held incom.municado by the Canadian Government
in 1941; supporter of the following Communist fronts: All-California
Conference for Defense of Civil Rights, Am.erican Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, American Council on Soviet Relations,
American League for Peace and Democracy, American Peace Mobih-
zation, American Youth Congress, Committee To Defend America
by Keeping out of War, First Congress of the Mexican and Spanish-
American Peoples of the United States, Galena Defense Committee,
International Labor Defense, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Second Northwest
Congress Against War and Fascism, New Masses, Council for Pan-
American Democracy.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 17
Joseph P. Selly, member, initiating committee, Civil Rights
Congress; acted in behalf of Communists Morris U. Schappes, Harry
Bridges, Francisco Perez Leiros, Murray Winocur; supporter of follow-
ing Communist front organizations: Council for Pan-American De-
mocracy, International Labor Defense, American Council on Soviet
Relations, American Peace Mobilization, American Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee.
Ferdinand C. Smith, member, initiating committee, Civil Rights
Congress; Communist Party member; acted in behalf of Communists
Earl Browder, Morris U. Schappes, Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., Israel
Amtcr, George Dimitrov; supporter of the following Communist
fronts: Council on African AfTairs, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com-
mittee, National Negro Congress, New Masses, United May Day
Committee, Stage for Action, George Washington Carver School.
Hope R. Stevens, member, initiating committee, Civil Rights
Congress; acted in behalf of Communists, Earl Browder, Benjamin J.
Davis, Jr., Luis Carlos Prestes, Sam Darcy, Harry Bridges, George
Dimitrov; signer of statement in defense of the Communist Party,
September 16, 1940, March 5, 1941; supporter of the following Com-
munist fronts: Lawyers Committee to Keep the U. S. out of War,
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, National Negro
Congress, Council for Pan-American Democracy, West Indies Na-
tional Emergency Committee, Jewish People's Committee.
Donald Ogden Stewart, member, initiating committee. Civil
Rights Congi-ess; supporter of the following organizations defending
individual Communists or the Communist Party: American Committee
for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, American Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, International Labor Defense, National
Committee for People's Rights, National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties, National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights;
signer of statement in behalf of Communists Sam Darcy, George
Dimitrov, Harry Bridges; supporter of the following Communist
fronts: American League for Peace and Democracy, League of Ameri-
can Writers, Committee for a Democratic Far-Eastern Policy, Con-
sumers L'nion, Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Motion
Picture Democratic Committee, National Council of American-Soviet
Friendship, New Alasses, Soviet Russia Today, Theatre Arts Com-
mittee, American Council for a Democratic Greece.
Dirk J. Struik, sponsor, Civil Rights Congress; signer of statement
in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Hariy Bridges, Morris U.
Schappes, George Dimitrov; supporter of the following Communist
fronts: Jefferson School of Social Science, American Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, Science and Society (magazine), New
Masses (magazine), Committee To Defend America by Keeping out
of War, Conference on Pan-American Democracy, American Com-
mittee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, National Federation
for Constitutional Liberties, Alassachusetts Council of American-
Soviet Friendship, Committee for Citizenship Rights.
Courtney D. Ward, sponsor, Civil Rights Congress; signer of state-
ment defending the Communist Party, March 13, 1947, May 25, 1947;
endorser of Daily Worker; supporter of the following Communist
fronts: American Peace ^Mobilization, National Federation for Con-
stitutional Liberties, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee; partic-
ipant in banquet for Ella Reeve Bloor, leading Communist, June 1947.
18 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Ha.rry F. Ward, chairman, Civil Rights Congress; signer of state-
ment in hehalf of Communists Harold Pritchett, Simon Gerson, Sam
Darcy, Ella Reeve Bloor, Luis Carlos Prestes, Harry Bridges, Morris
U. Schappes, Gerhart Eisler, Earl Browder; signer of statement in
defense of the Communist Party, March 5, 1941, April 19, 1947;
supporter of the following Communist publications: New Masses,
Soviet Russia Today, Daily Worker, Midwest Daily Record; endorser
of statement in defense of the Soviet Union, October 4, 1933, June 20,
1936, September 1939, August 1941, March 18, 1946, June 15, 1947;
supporter of the following Communist fronts: American jLeague
Against War and Fascism, American League for Peace and Democracy,
American Peace Mobilization, American Committee for Protection of
Foreign Born, American Friends of the Chinese People, American
Friends of Spanish Democracy, American Youth Congress, League of
American Writers, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties,
National Negro Congress, American Student Union, International
Labor Defense, American Youth for Democracy, League of Women
Shoppers, Council for Pan-American Democracy, Joint Anti-Fascist
Refugee Committee.
Max Weber, sponsor. New York Civil Rights Congress; signer of
statement in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, James Ford, Sam
Darcy, Harry Bridges, George Dimitrov, Israel Amter, Gerhart
Eisler, Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.; signer of statement in defense of the
Communist Party, Alarch 18, 1945, April 16, 1947, May 20, 1947;
signer of statement in defense of the Soviet Union, Alarch 1937,
November 1937, April 28, 1938, Septcmbor 1939, March 18, 1946; sup-
porter of the following Communist fronts: American Artists Congress,
Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions,
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, New Masses, Soviet
Russia Today, United American Artists, International Workers Order,
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Joint Anti-
Fascist Refugee Committee, National Council of American-Soviet
Friendship.
Louis Weinstock, member, initiating committee. Civil Rights
Congress; member, national committee. Communist Party; signer of
statement in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Ella Reeve Bloor,
Abraham MarkolF, George Dimitrov, Stanley Nowak, Benjamin J.
Davis, Jr., Robert Thompson; numerous other front connections.
Gene Weltfish, member, initiating committee, Civil Rights Con-
gress; signer of statement in behalf of Communists Gerhart Eisler, Ella
Reeve Bloor; condemns "Red-baiting," September 25, 1946; supporter
of the following Communist fronts: American Committee for a
Democratic Greece, Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy,
Congress of American Women, Jefferson School of Social Science,
American Youth for Democracy, Council on African Affairs.
Max Yergan, m.ember, initiating committee, Civil Rights Congress;
signer of statement in behalf of Communists Earl Browder, Benjamin
J. Davis, Jr., George Dimitrov, Harry Bridges, Ella Reeve Bloor;
signer of statement in defense of the Communist Party, September
16, 1940, April 26, 1947; supporter of following Communist fronts:
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, American League
for Peace and Democracy, American Peace Mobilization, Win-the-
Peace Conference, American Committee for Protection of Foreign-
Born, Committee for a Democratic Far-Eastern Policy, National
Negro Congress, American Student Union, American Youth Con-
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 19
gress, China Aid Council, Committee for Citizenship Rights, Com-
mittee To Defend America by Keeping out of War, National
Federation for Constitutional Liberties, Council on African Affairs,
Council for Pan-American Democracy, International Committee on
African AlTaii-s, International Labor Defense, International Workers
Order, New Masses, School for Democracy, George Washington
Carver School, Jefferson School of Social Science, People's Radio
Foundation.
Of the above 34 key individuals guiding the policies of the Civil
Rights Congress, 12 are outright leading members of the Communist
Party, 25 have aided one or more leading Communists on occasion,
and 14 have signed statements in support or defense of the Communist
Party. Due allowance should be made for the fact that important
party members are known to keep their membership secret. It is
therefore safe to assume from the pattern of loyalty to the party-line
that there are more party members among these 34 key individuals.
It is worthy of note that subsequent to the formation of the Civil
Rights Congress in Detroit on April 27-28, 1946, and the enUstment
of additional sponsors, the names of a number of members of the
initiating committee, having served their decoy purposes, disappeared
from the organization's letterhead, among them being Zlatko Balo-
kovic, Elmer A. Benson, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Edward
Chodorov, Norman Corwin, Julius Emspak, Jess Fletcher, Clark
Foreman, Carey McWilliams, Kirtley F. Mather, Bishop Edward L.
Parsons, James G. Patton, Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, Paul Robeson,
Edward G. Robinson, Wesley E. Sharer, Prof. John F. Shepard,
Johannes Steel, and Donald Ogden Stewart. This seems to be a
favorite device of Communist front organizations.
CONCLUSION
From the facts cited above it should be clear that the Civil Rights
Congress is an organization dedicated not to the broader issues of
civil liberties, but specifically to the defense of individual Communists
and the Communist Party, that the organization is controlled by
individuals who are either members of the Communist Party or
openly loyal to it, and that in carrying out its defense aims, the
organization has at the same time engaged in a campaign of vihfication
against the American Government.
Beginning on page 40 is a list of contributions and expenditures of
the Civil Rights Congress and its New York bi'anch, as submitted
to the Clerk of the House of Representatives in accordance with the
Lobbying Act. These figures show the enormous financial income
which this organization defending the Communist Party and its
officials, whose activities are clearly directed against the interests of
the United States, has been able to accumulate. In some cases this
income has been drawn from sources franldy in sympathy with the
Communist Party such as the International Fur and Leather Workers
Union (CIO), the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of
America (CIO), the Communist Party of the United States, George
Marshall, Dashiell Hammett, Louise Bransten, Lement Harris, Paul
Crosbie, and others. In some cases they have been secured on the
basis of a spurious appeal in behalf of civil liberty. The report will
further show the maintenance of a huge legal and administrative staff
including persons with known Communist records.
APPENDIX
You Are Called Into Action To Safeguard Civil, Labor, and Minobitt
Rights in New York i ,
A conference will be held on Thomas Jefferson Day Saturdaj^ April 13, 1946,
at 1 p. m., at Fraternal Clubhouse, 110 West Forty-eighth Street, New York City.
Tlie war against fascism is not ended. An enemy offensive is now being waged
against the common people of the United States — ^labor, Negroes, Jewish people,
the foreign-born, progressives and all their organizations — in a relentless drive
to establish fascism in our own country.
initiating committee
James Egert AJlen, president, New York State Conference of NAACP Branches
Zlatko Balokovic, president, American Slav Congress of Greater New York
Joseph Brodsky
Charles Collins, vice president. Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees, A. F. of L.
Louis Colman, secretary, International Labor Defense
Joseph Curran, president, National Maritime Union
Miss Thelma Dale, field secretary, National Negro Congress
Miss Katherine Earnshaw, coordinator of activities, Greater New York CIO
Council
Rabbi Max Felshin
David Freedman
Leonard Golditch, secretary. National Committee To Combat Anti-Semitism
Abner Green, executive secretary, American Committee for the Protection of
Foreign Born
David Greene, executive secretary. International Workers Order, New York
Rev. Walter Houck, editor. Pilgrim Interfaith Forum
Assemblyman Hulan E. Jack
Mrs. Ada B. Jackson, Brooklyn Interracial Assembly
Albert E. Kahn
Milton Kemnitz, executive secretary, National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties
Judge Anna M. Kross
Canada Lee
Representative Vito Marcantonio, president, International Labor Defense
Lewis Merrill, president. United Office and Professional Workers of America
Rev. Jack R. McMichael, executive secretary, National Federation for Social
Service
Saul Mills, president. Greater New York CIO Council
Samuel Neuberger
Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Mrs. Hazel Scott Powell
Leon Quat, executive secretary. Metropolitan Interfaith and Interracial Coordi-
nating Council
Prof. Walter Rautenstrauch, Columbia University
Bernard Reswick, president, Brooklyn Council for Social Planning
Lawrence Rivkin, chairman. Veterans Against Discrimination
Miss Rose Russell, legislative secretary. Teachers Union
William Jay SchiefTelin
Joseph P. Selly, president, American Communications Association, CIO
Miss Lisa Sergio
Johannes Steel
Hope R. Stevens
Ferdinand Smith, vice president. National Maritime Union
Palmer Weber, research director, CIO Political Action Committee
> Program, Civil Rights Congress, April 13, 1946.
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CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 21
Dr. Gene Weltfish, department of anthropology, Columbia University
Louis Weinstock, secretary-treasurer, district council No. 9, Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators, and Paperhansers of America, A. F. of L.
Rev. Wayne White, president, Bronx Clergy Association
Max Yergan, president, National Negro Congress
(Organizations listed for identification only.)
Initiating Committee for a Congress on Civil Rights, 205 East Fortt-
SECOND Street, New York 17, N. Y.^
Elmer A. Benson, Chairman, Executive Council, National Citizens PAG.
Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, president, Palmer Institute.
Col. Evans Carlson, Escondido, Calif.
Edward Chodorov, New York City.
Norman Corwin, New York City.
Julius Emspak, secretary-treasurer. United Electrical, Radio, and Machine
Workers, CIO.
Jess Fletcher, vice president, Building Service Employees International Union,
AFL.
Carey McWilliams, Los Angeles, Calif.
George Marshall, chairman. National Federation for Constitutional Liberties.
Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, Cambridge, Mass.
Dr. Benjamin E. Ma3's, president, Morehouse College.
Bishop Edward L. Parsons, San Francisco, Calif.
Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, president, Colgate-Rochester Divinity College.
Paul Robeson, New York City.
Edward G. Robinson, Hollywood, Calif.
Wesley E. Sharer, co-chairman, Chicago Civil Liberties Committee.
Prof. John F. Shepard, president, Michigan Civil Rights Federation.
Johannes Steel, New York City.
Donald Ogden Stewart, Cambridge, Mass.
Milton Kaufrnan, executive secretary.
(Organizations listed for Identification only.)
Urgent Summons to a Congress on Civil Rights
In Detroit, April 27 and 28, 1946, to organize an offensive against the rising
Fascist aggression in the United States.
Today's drive to subvert our democratic liberties is well-organized, well-heeled,
insidious. It presents an emergency that emergency measures alone can meet.
The great war against fascism is won, but the victory is far from secure. Only
a coalition of all the forces of the people, through united action, can prevent its
destruction.
initiating committee
Zlatko Balokovic, vice president, American Slav Congress
Elmer A. Benson, chairman, executive council, National Citizens PAC
Mary McLeod Bethune
Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, president. Palmer Institute
Col. Evans Carlson
Edward Chodorov
Norman Corwin
Julius Emspak, secretary-treasurer, United Electrical, Radio, and Machine
Workers, CIO
Jess Fletcher, vice president, Building Service Employees, International Union,
AFL
Clark Foreman, president, Southern Conference for Human Welfare
Carey McWilliams
Rep. Vito ]Marcantonio, president. International Labor Defense
George Marshall, chairman, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties
Dr. Kirtley F. Mather
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president, Morehouse College
' Letterhead, March 9, 1946.
22 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Bishop Edward L. Parsons
James G. Patton, president, National Farmers Union
Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, president, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Paul Robeson
Edward G. Robinson
Wesley E. Sharer, co-chairman, Chicago Civil Liberties Committee
Prof. John F. Shepard, president, Michigan Civil Rights Federation
Johannes Steel
Donald Ogden Stewart
Milton Kaufman, executive secretary
SPONSORS '
(Partial list)
Joseph Curran, president, National Maritime Union
Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., New York City
Adolph Dehn
Representative Hugh DeLacy, Washin,a;ton
Hon. Earl B. Dickerson, president. National Bar Association.
Catherine Dunham
Roscoe Dunjee
N. H. Eagle, Director of Organization, United Rubber Workers
Prof. R. D. Feild, Tulane University
Lion Feuchtwanger
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Eleanor Fowler, secretary. Congress of Women's Auxiliaries
Stephen H. Fritchman, editor, Chirstian Register
Leo Gallagher, Los Angeles
John Garfield
Sander Genis, manager, Twin City Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Elinor S. Gimbel, New York City
Leonard Golditch, secretary. National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism
Rabbi Solomon Goldman, Chicago
L. A. Gossett, secretary, Georgia State CIO Council.
Bishop J. A. Gregg, Kansas City, Kans.
Abner Green, secretary, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Mel J.' Heinritz, secretary, Wisconsin State CIO Council
Donald Henderson, president. Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and AlUed Workers
Rev. Charles A. Hill, president, Detroit NAACP.
James M. Hinton, president. State Conference of NAACP for S. C.
Langston Hughes
Rev. Kenneth deP. Hughes, president, Boston NAACP
Hosea Hudson, local president. United Steel Workers, Birmingham
Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman, chairman. Justice and Peace Commission, Central
Conference of American Rabbis
Dr. D. V. Jemison, president. National Baptist Convention
Dr. Rufus M. Jones, Haverford, Pa.
J. F. Jurich, president, International Fishermen and Allied Workers
Louis Adamic
Meyer Adelman, district director. United Steelworkers, Milwaukee
Raymond Pace Alexander
James Egert Allen, president, New York State Conference, NAACP branches
Representative Charles W. Anderson, Kentucky State Legislature
Judge William A. Anderson, Minneapohs
Susan B. Anthony II, secretary. Congress of American Women
Elmer J. F. Arndt, chairman, Committee for Christian Social Action, Evangelical
and Reformed Church
Bishop James C. Baker, Los Angeles
C. B. Baldwin, executive vice president. National Citizens PAC
Howard Bay, president. United Scenic Artists, Local 829
W. A. Bell, president. Miles College
Lewis Alan Berne, president. Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians
Warren K. Billings
Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, New York City
Judge Jane M. Bolin, New York City
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 23
H. D. Bollinger, secretary, Department of Student Work, Board of Education,
Methodist Church
Rev. W. Kusscl Bowie
Louis E. Burnham, organizing secretary, Southern Negro Youth Congress
D. A. Cameron, editor. Little, Brown & Co.
Councilman Charles N. Carr, Cleveland
Del Castle, Ship Scalers Union, Local 589
Rose Mae Catchings, president, Southern Negro Youth Congress
Prof. Emmanuel Chapman, chairman, Committee of Catholics for Human Rights
Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president, Atlanta University
Dean Nick Comfort, Oklahoma School of Religion
Philip M. Connelly, secretary, Los Angeles CIO Council
Councilman Eugene P. Connolly, New York City
A. A. Couch, president, Iowa Federation of Labor
Julius Crane, vice president, United Shoe Workers
George W. Crockett, Jr., executive director. Fair Practices Committee, UAW,
CIO
Millard Lampell
Ring W. Lardner, Jr.
Kenneth Leslie, editor, the Protestant
A. A. Liveright, executive director, American Council on Race Relations
Arthur Le Sueur, Duluth, Minn.
Bishop Francis J. McConnell
Prof. Edward W. McFarland, president Metropolitan Council FEP, Detroit
O. E. McKaine, secretary, Progressive Democratic Party, South Carolina
Rev. Jack R. McMichaei, secretary, Methodist Federation for Social Service
Herbert March, district director. United Packinghouse Workers, Chicago
Prof. F. O. Matthieson, Harvard University
Samuel D. Menin, Denver, Colo.
Lewis Merrill, president. United Office and Professional Workers
Saul Mills, secretary, New York CIO Council
Dr. George S. Mitchell, director. Veterans Service, Southern Regional Council ^
J. P. Mooney, organizer. Textile Workers Union, Bessemer, Ala.
Morris Muster, president. United Furniture Workers
Tom Neill, executive secretary, Servicemen's and Veterans' Welfare Committee,
UERWMA
Josephine Nordstrand, secretary, Wisconsin State Conference on Social Legisla-
tion
Grant W. Oakes, president, United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers
Representative Ellis E. Patterson, California
Boyd E. Payton, president, Virginia State CIO Council
Dr. Charles A. Petioni, chairman, West Indies National Council
Terry Pettus, president, Washington State CIO-PAC
Irving Potash, manager. Furriers Joint Council, New York
Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., New Y''ork City
Lee Pressman, general counsel, CIO
Councilman Michael J. Quill, president. Transport Workers Union
Thomas C. Rabbitt, Washington State senatoi
Mervyn Rathborne, Secretary, California State CIO Council
Prof. Walter Rautenstrauch, Columbia University
Earl Robinson
Reid Robinson, President, International Union, Mine, Mill and Smelter WorkoFS
Dorothy K. Roosevelt, Executive Secretary, Michigan Citizens Committee
Representative William A. Rowan, Illinois
Representative Charles R. Savage, Washington
William Jay Schieffelin
Prof. A. M. Schlesinger, Harvard University
Artur Schnabel
Prof. Frederick L. Schuman, Williams College
Joseph P. Selly, President, American Communications Association
Henry R. Silberman, Executive Director, New England Division, Amepiean Jew-
ish Congress
Charles N. Smolikoff, Director, Florida State CIO Council
Herbert K. Sorrell, President, Conference of Studio Unions, APL •
Christina Stead
Max Sein, Secretary, Cincinnati CIO Council
A. E. Stevenson. Secretary. Cleveland CIO Council
H. Kept. 1115, 80-1 i
24 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Prof. Dirk J. Struik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Glenn J. Talbott, President, North Dakota Farmers Union
Senator Glen H. Taylor, Idaho
Representative Donald C. Teigland, Illinois State Legislature
W. E. Tucker, President, Local 157, International Uni-on of Brewery Workers,
Dallas, Tex.
Prof. Ralph E. Wager, Emory University
Dr. Harry F. Wartr ■ - ■ .
Courtney D. Ward, Secretary. Painters District GoiinciT. Cleveland
Max Weber . , ' -
Lulu B. White, Secretary, Houston, Tex., NAAGP -
Rev. Glaude C. Williams-. Director, People's Institute of Applied Religion
James H. Wolfe, justice, State Supreme Court, Utah '
Bishop Pk,. R. Wright, Jr., Secretary, Fraternal Council of Negro Churches '
Dr. Max Yergan, President, National Negro Congress
Jaok-Zellerj Etlucatiotial DirectOT, UAW-Cia - -•-- ■' '"f-:^'-':'- - " -'?'.-.'»^'
Conference headquarters: 009 Hammond Building. Fort and Woodward
Avenues, Detroit. Telephone: Cadillac 0278. - _' ':
Registration: At First Congregational Church from 11 a. m. to 2, p. rn. on
Saturday. After 2 p^m., at Maccabees Auditorium. Registration fee:, $2 for
each orgamzation, delegate, or individual. ^ V'- V- - '-^■
Representation: Two representatives from each organization;' %iteresle^
individual?^ .. ^ ' - ' J ' '; :J' ' "^■" - ^- ' .'^ r
Conference lmiche<>n: Saturday noon, at First Congregatibn'al Chu'rcE.' Reser-
vations may be mad6^ at $1.50 per plate. Please riiake reservatiojis in advance^
Lunpheon speakers to be announced. - '• . ■, r ' --
Accommodation!?:' Heservations for hotel accomrtiodatidhs must. be riia'de in
advance because of housing difficulties."" Address" all requests for reservations to
New York headquarters of Congress on Civil Rights. For fuftlier .details,
additional copies" of' this call and 'general' inquiry, send all cohimumcatlpfls to:
Congress on CiviL Rights, 1^05 East .Fortv-se.cofld Street,- New -York 17, N/ Y!.
.MUrrayi[lll-4^e40;--- "-- ^::""-^ ?.-£rvr^ -r.::,?-^! ;-:.-;}>r ^-y-i^wj:^
,.s»&?.-*-:rr:s.cO er^Se" JFEcftfl-the'wisBiiigton P6st;Taratoy,May20; K)47r .r:-.''??^? ...li^''i £r:-1
^^0_B jPoMiatujiisflr-s pF- Thbib Rights?— r-TpENrrYou^&Gp-. Oxjtj'thb -WrNpow, -'Epp
Mr. Cp.ngre^man ^ ^We. ar.e,>vriting ^j'OU. te convey our opp.osition to the enact-
ment 01 any excdption^ sLnd^pumtiyel pleasures, directed against tlieComjpjaanist
Party. ■,. „. . -, ,-■ -'-"■".:;;■.;■ , , .''-.-, v^ -''-'^- ":..-J. -"-,-, ~t/^ ^' ----,^
We consider the Rankiii"bj|t,alid aS "^simnafTegislationla
liberties of the entire American people, almost without parallel Jnl our history.
It is a flagrant violation, of-the ri^Jhts guaranteed all citizens "under the Constitution
and the Bill of Rightstand especially reserved to all minority, parties and groups.
These guarantees are precious to us for the same sound. reasons that rn^de
them the foundation of American deinoeracy. Once our Geveriurient is permitted
the means of suppressing one' minority party, even if that party is opposed by
most Americans, the door is ©pen to the suppression. of aiiy, and all otlier minority
parties. Moreover, the enactfneAt of such legislation woidd. inevitably dead, to
the censorship of all publications, the policing of all drganizia'tion .programs, anJd
jgubjeet^ing fiveryojie's mail to search and scrutiny. - - .. .„...- ']','. .1- . ."'~
" ■ ' Legislatioa sVich as tliait proposed by. Congressmen'Rankin, Sheppard, ITartley,
Parnell " Thorhas, aiid McDdnough follows -the Hitler pattern Outlawing the
Communist Party is the first fatal ixiile down the road t-o fascism; it Xs tlie inevi-
table prelude to the destruction of a free labor movement, academic freedom in
the Nation's schools and colleges, freedom of political and religious belief, and
of all progressive organizations and movements. " ' ' . . _ ,'
No true American can ignore tlie lessons- learaed from Fascist rule in- Hitler
Germany, and.paid for by. Uie- American pedple.in blood and suffering.
. --.'^hjej.Coiiini VI mst Party fs^a.^^ We see nothing in
its program, record, orlictivities; eitlier in war or peace, to justify tlie enactment
of the repressive legislation now-bein^iir§.ed.upon,the. Congeess in an atniQsphere
of an organizedJ>j'steria..''.--' . ,' :..^'iS ;_,, -,l..l\~ .. - ' '.',\" J -^^.,r ' .■ ^^^'r,: " -' -lV..r.~-£-
We therefore urge yotTto defend oiirdehibcfatic'Airiefican way- bf.Tlfebv "re-
jecting the Rankin bill and all legislation which- curtails- the deii^QcratiQ- rights
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CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 25-
of Colnniunists, or wliich violates or limits the CGrstitutiona} right of tho Coni-
munist Party to function as a legalpolitical party as it lias in the past.
' Respectfully, •
:i.: ;t-- Franklin P. Adams; Prof. Thomas Addis, Stanford University; Stella'
Adlor, actress; James E. Alien, president. New York State Con-
ference NAACP; Bishop C. C. Alle^me, Philadelphia, Pa.; Zlatko
Balokovic, vice president, American Slav Congress; Samuel
L. M. Parlow, New York City; Bishop W. Y. Belli Cordele, Ga.;
Hon. Elmer A. Benson, Vice chairman, Progressive Citizens of
America; Waltei' Bernstein, writer; Prof. Lyman R. Bradlej',
New York University; Prof. S. P. Breckinridge, University of.
Chicago; Prof. Edwin Berry Burgum, New York University;'
Charles H. Colvin, New York City; Nibk Comfort, former dean,'
Oklahoma School of Religion; Prof. Archibald Cox, Harvard'
University; Prof. H. W. L. Dana, Harvard University; Frank M^
Davis, executive editor. Associated Negro Press; Adolph Dehn,-
•- artist; Prof. J. Frank Dobie, University of Texas;- William E.
Dodd, San Francisco, Calif.; Arnaud D'Usseau, playwright;
- :■-- ■•■ Prof. Henry Pratt Fairchild, New York University; Howard
-,r.'_ ;zi Fast; Harry Gottlieb, Artist; John C. Cranberry, editor, The'
Emancipator; AVilliam Cropper; Prof. Ralph H. Gundlach, Uni-
^■-- nrversity of Washington; Robert Gwathmey, artist; J. W. Hay-
wood, Gammon Theologicar Seminary ; Rev. Duncan M. Hobarl,
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Meridian, Miss.; Rev. Kennetti
de P. Hughes, Cambridge, Mass. ; Prof. Ellsworth Huntington,
-CTi:-:.^ ''.1 Yale Universit}'; Carol Janeway, artist; Francis Fisher Kane,
>o.-D?-.r 5,~.-f<: Philadelphia, Pa.; Rabbi Jacob H. Kaplan, Temple Israel, Mianfif
"' Reach, Fla. ; Frank Kleinholz, artist; John Howard Lawsbnf
~' Ray Lev, pianist; Pluhp Loeb, actor; Rev. Charles F. Mac-
lennan, Cleveland, Ohio; W. H. Man waring, professor emeritus;
j: ."f: .'s.: : -Stanford University; Prof. F. O. INIatthiessen, Harvard Unir
.n;>5aii.-?: ^^-'versity; Rev. Jack R. McMichael, executive secretary, Methodist
— her-. ; rev '; ?^" Federiation for ^Social Service; Rev. William Howard Melishf
:>'?•; f '^^' .-^Brooklvn, N. Y.; Arthur Miller, playwright; Judge-Stanley
.Z 9i:?j:..i ii&:--Moffat't, Huntington Park', Calif .; Rev.- Skillmain E. -Myers,'
'i?Tbf. R3.:.y. ^'Piairtfield, Vt.; Bishop R. C. Ransom, AMEChureh, Wilbet-
.larrjifixfO -c —? force,- Ohio; Elbert Russell, dean emeritus. Divinity School^
_ Duke University; William Jay Schieffelin, New "York City; Arthur
x^y/. .B?.ii je>~gchnabel; Prof. "Frederick L. Schuman,' Williams College;,Vida^D^
sz.&LIl'f' .•:«-' --Scudder, professor emeritus, Wellesley Cdllegie; Prof. MafColm
.sailvC A Btii::iSha'rp, law school, ■University of Chicago; -Vincent Sheeanj
?rfT .,7r.rir>£ r: :]VIargaret Sanger Slee;- Tucson, Ariz.; Rev. F. Hastin_gs Smythy
-RCi :"•:.--. ttnrTfSup'eTioF S.-C. C.,- Cambridge, Mass.; Raphael Soyer, artist;
_ Dr. Harry F. Ward, professor emerit.us, Union Theological Settil-
.^r•i*.T^• .?^'.:P n^ry; - Prof. Leroy Waterman; University ' of Michigan; Max
- - ■ • - :-:f-.-, r Weber, artist; Dr. ' Henry -N. Wieman; University* or _Ghicagoj
- ""'William Zorach^- - * _ ■ ' .i.-,; :. - t •; ^( e__ . ; ;;i
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(This adverti.^erment is sponsored and paid for "by the Civil Rfghts Congress), '
(From the Daily Wor'.ier, October 7, 1946, p. 3] _
Sixty Labor. ^Civic Le^aders: Defend •GP_BAtfcOT-- Rights
'^-GnFthee've of thereopening.of thecourt-euit-tobarthoe Communist Party from
the New York State ballot, 601abor andiiberaltcaders yesterday condemned the
drive conducted by reactionary Democratic leaders against minority., party relejCr
toralriglttsaa "assault on the American principle of free elections.-^^ rs.:,r Vi'.f;.-r,i#
26 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Court action against the Communist petitions gets under way this afternoon
for a second time in the Albany Supreme Court.
Earlier proceedings before Justice William H. Murray in Troy were canceled,
after two days of testimon3', by an appellate court ruling that Justice Murray had
snatched the case "in excess of his jurisdiction."
The same justice, however, is regularly scheduled to sit in the Albany Supreme
Court, starting toda3^
Attorneys for the Communist Party, Joseph R. Brodsky and Paul J. Kern, said
yesterday they would ask him to disqualify himself in view of the appellate court
decision. They may appeal to the higher court again if he should fail to do so.
In their previous plea to the appellate court, they charged that attorneys for
Spencer Young, Democratic candidate for Comptroller in whose name the fight
against the Communist petition is being conducted, had "shopped aro\md" for
Justice Murray because of a previous ruling barring the party from the ballot.
Communist campaign headquarters announced that Councilman Benjamin J.
Davis, candidate for Attorney General on the Communist ticket, will become part
of the legal defense at today's hearing. Councilman Davis is a member of both
the State and Federal bars in Georgia.
Nathan Witt, former secretary of the National Labor Relations Board, will
enter the case as a "friend of the court" in behalf of both the State and City CIO
organizations.
In their statement yesterday, the 60 labor and liberal leaders called upon the
"responsible officials of the major parties to repudiate these attacks and actively
defend the basic political rights of all American citizens by formal and public
opposition to the action taken against the minority groups."
"In New York, a general attack is being made on the right of any minority
party to participate in the elections, with the most intensive fire being directed
at removing the Communist Party from the ballot. Defending its own electoral
rights in the courts now, the Communist Party as the first and immediate object
of attack is thereby defending the American principle of free elections."
Among the signers of the declaration, issued by Dashiel Hammett, president of
Civil Rights Congress of New York, were ministers, labor leaders, professors,
writers, artists, and actors from various parts of the state. They included —
Rev. Dr. Charles B. Ackley, of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, New York;
James Egert Allen, State president, NAACP; ALP City Councilman Eugene P.
Connolly; Thomas Bell, novelist; William Rose Benet, poet; Stanley Moss, adver-
tising. New York; Rabbi Jonah E. Caplan, Astoria; Rev. Ruthven S. Chalmer,
Boonville, N. Y.; Armaud d'Usseau, dramatist.
Also: Prof. Henry Pratt Fairchild; Rabbi Max Felshin; Garner Rea, Max
Weber, Raphael Soyer, William Zorach, Helen V/est Heller, artists; Col. William
Jay Schieffelin; Vilhjalmar Stefansson, writer and explorer; James A. Moss,
Methodist Federation for Social Service; Rev. V, illiam B. Spofford, editor, The
Witness, Episcopal publication; Katherine Dunham, dancer; Jerome Robbras,
producer.
Also: Rev. Kenneth E. Hoover, Hobart, N. Y.; Rev. Lee A. Howe, Oneida,
N. Y.; Bishop James K. Humphrey, New York; Rev. Howard McGrath, Pough-
keepsie; Rev. Mebane Ramsey, Staten Island; Rev. Richard Henry, Brooklyn.
Also: Harry Beckman, president, Local 3, and Frank Dutto, president Local 1,
AFL Bakers Union; Theodore Jackson, president, Local 370, Dining Car Employ-
ees; Martin Cody, secretary-treasurer, Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees, AFL;
Joseph Cohn, manager, Local 623, Meat Cutters Union, AFL; Harry Reich,
president, Chefs and Cooks Union, Local 89, AFL.
Also: Sam Burt, manager, joint board. Fur Dressers and Dyers, CIO; Nick
Carnes, president Local 1250, Department Store Workers; Mickey Finn, secretary-
treasurer Local 259 UAW-CIO; Rocco Franceschini, secretary-treasurer. Shoe
Joint Council, CIO; Morris Gainer, president, Local 905, Brotherhood of Painters,
AFL; David Livingston, director of organization, -Local 65, URWEDSEA, CIO;
Anthony J. Salcse,' president, Local 430, UERMWA, CIO; Aaron D. Schneider,
regional director, UOPWA.
(From the New York Times, October 7, 1946, p. 19]
Keep Elections Free in New York Statb
A new attack on the freedom of elections is under way in New York State.
Various reactionaries are now attempting to drive four minority parties off the
ballot for the coming elections. Charges have been made by the parties under
attack that intimidation of nominating petition signers is the majci weapon
being used against them.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
27
Whether One agrees with the platforms and programs of any of these parties
is not the issue.
The sole question is the right of all parties — and those they represent — to a
place on the ballot. This is a right guaranteed by our election laws.
An attack on the right of citizens to vote for candidates of their choice is an
attack upon all democracy-loving citizens. If the minority parties can be driven
off the ballot, either by terror or subterfuge, the ballot rights of no group in
American political life are safe. The present attack, a move to freeze all political
activity within the limits of a two-party system, jeopardizes freedom of political
action for all.
Fascism began its attack on democracy in every nation under the banner of
"anti-Communism." It quickly moved on to the destruction of all political
groups, trade unions, civic and religious organizations, that stood in its way.
In New York, a general attack is being made on the right of any minority party
to participate in the elections, with the most intensive fire being directed at re-
moving the Communist Party from the ballot. Defending its own electoral rights
in the courts now, the Communist Party, as the first and immediate object of
attack, is thereby defending the American principle of free elections.
Fascism must not happen here.
We cannot permit freedom to be strangled, either by open terror or by legalistic
trickery.
We, the undersigned, representing citizens of various political opinions, hereby
record our strenuous objections to any undemocratic attempt to deprive any
minority party of the right to the ballot. We brand such attacks as an assault
on the American principle of free elections. We call upon the responsible officials
of the major parties to repudiate these attacks and actively defend the basic
electoral rights of all American citizens by formal and public opposition to the
actions taken against the minority groups.
By word and by deed we pledge ourselves to work for the maintenance of the
system of free elections for all.
(Partial list of signers. Names of organizations or institutions used for purposes
of identification only.)
Rev. Dr. Charles B. Ackley,. St. Mary's
Episcopal Church, New York.
James Egert Allen, president, New
York State Conference, NAACP.
Henry Beckman, president, local 3,
Bakers' Union, AFL, New York.
Thomas Bell, writer, New York.
William Rose Benet, poet, New York.
Prof. Lyman R. Bradley, New York
University.
James L. Brewer, Esq., Rochester, N. Y.
Sam Burt, manager, Joint Board of
Furriers and Djers, CIO, New York.
Rabbi Jonah E. Caplan, Beth-el of
Astoria, Long Island.
Nick Carnes, president, Local 1250,
Dept. Store Workers, CIO, New York.
Pk^v. Ruthven S. Chalmers, Boonville,
N. Y.
Martin Cody, secretary-treasurer. Local
6, Hotel and Club Emploj^ees, AFL,
New York.
Joseph Cohen, manager, Local 625,
Meat Cutters L'nion, AFL, New York.
Councilman Eugene P. Connolly, New
York, xV. Y.
Rev. Alfred H. Coons, Margaretville,
N. Y.
Katherine Dunham, dancer. New York.
Arnaud d'Usseau, dramatist. New York.
Frank Dutto, president. Local 1, Bakers'
Union, AFL, New York.
Prof. Henry Pratt Fairchild, New York
University.
Howard Fast, writer. New York.
Rabbi Max Felshin, Radio City Syna-
gogue, Kew York.
Mickey Finn, secretarv-treasurer. Local
259, UAW-CIO, N4w York.
Rocco Franceschini, secretary-treasurer,
Shoe Joint Council. CIO, New York.
Morris Gainer, president. Local 905,
Brotherhood of Pain;crs, AFL, New
York.
Robert Gwathmey, artist, New York.
Li^ta Hagen, actress, New York.
Arthur J. Harvey, Esq., Albany, N. Y.
Helen West Heller, artist, New York.
Lyndon Henry, business agent. Local
80, Joint Board of Furriers, Dressers,
and Dyers, CIO, New York.
Rev. Richard Henry, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. Kenneth E. Hoover, Hobart, N. Y.
Rev. Lee A. Howe, Oneida, N. Y.
Bishop James K. Humphrey, New York.
Theodore Jackson, president. Local 370,
Dining Car Employees, New York.
Sidney Kaufman, agent. National Union
of Marine Cooks and Stewards, CIO.
Joseph F. Kehoe, secretary-treasurer,
American Communications Associ-
ation, CIO.
Carol King, lawyer. New York.
David Livingston, director of organiza-
tion. Local 65, URW and DSEA,
CIO. New York.
Rev. Howard D. McGrath, Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.
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George Marshall, chairman of national Col. William Jay SchieflFelin, New York.
board, Civil Rights Congress, Kew Aaron D. Schneider, Nev/ York, regional
York. director, UOPWA.
James A. Moss, Methodist Federation Prof. T. C. Schneirla, New York Uni-
for Social Service, New York. versity.
Stanley Moss, advertising, New York. Joseph P. Selly, president, American
Samuel, A. Neuburger, Esq., New Communications Association.
York. Raphael Soyer, artist. New York.
Irving Potash, manager. Furriers Joint Rev. WiUiam B. Spofford, editor, The
Council, CIO, New York. Witness (Episcopal).
Rev. Mebane Ramsey, Calvary Presby- Vilhjalmur Stefansson, writer, New
terian, Staten Island. York.
Rea Gardner, artist, Brookhaven, N. Y. Prof. Bernhard J. Stern, Columbia Uni-
Harry Reich, president, Chefs and versity.
Cooks Union, Local 89, ALF, New Max Weber, artist, Great Neck, Long
York. Island, N. Y.
Jerome Robbins, producer, New York. William Zorach, sculptor, New York.
Anthony J. Salese, president, Local 430,
UERMWA, New York.
Civil Rights Congress of New York
112 East Nineteenth Street, New York 3, N. Y.
Dashiell Hammett, President Meyer E. Stern, Kenneth Spencer, Cochairmen
of the Board
Organizations Participating in Eisler's Defense *
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.
Civil Rights Congress.
Friends of the German- American.
German-American Labor Council.
BISLER DEFENSE COMMITTEE
(Committee in formation)
Max Bedacht Ida Guggenheimer
Dr. FeUx Bocnheim Abraham J. Isserman
Charles Collms Carol King
Eugene P. Connolly Albert Maltz
Gustav Faber Walter Mueller
Send your contribution to the German-American, Inc., to help spread the
truth about the Eisler case.
The German-American, Inc.,
S06 Broadway, Room 207, New York 7, N. Y.
[From PM, March 3, 1947, p. m20]
Read What Outstanding Americans Say About the Un-American Activities
Committee
As American citizens concerned with the future of democracy in our land,
we condemn the undemocratic practices of the Thomas-Rankin House Committee
on Un-American Activities, most recently exemplified by the shameful persecution
of the anti-Fascist refugee, Gerhart Eisler. The hysterical atmosphere contrived
around this case, involving a German Communist, kept here against his will,
indicates that it is intended as the initir.l phase of a sweeping attack upon the
labor and progressive movement in the United States. Were such tactics to
remain unchecked in our Nation, as in Germany in the early 1930's, we Americans
would have ourselves to blame for consequences possibly as disastrous as those
which overtook the German people.
' Pamphlet, Eisler Hits Back, issued by the German-American, Inc., December 11, 1946, p. 16.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 29
Today, the Un-American Activities Committoc openly plans to intensify its
antidemocratic activities. The Kisler case sets tlic stau;e for the passage of anti-
labor legislation, for an all-out attack on organized lal)or and the educational
system, and for the suppression of all liberal thought in the radio and movie
industries. The inevitable consequence of this program would be the ultimate
suppression of all traditional American liberties.
We therefore call upon Congress to abolish this most un-American committee,
urge President Truman to effect immediate release of Gerhart Eisler, permitting
him to return to his homeland.
We urge our fellow Americans to join us in this efifort.
Hon. Elmer Benson
D. W. Chapman, president, Montana Farmers Union
Dr. Nick Comfort, dean, Oklahoma School of Religion
Frank Marshall Davis, executive editor, Associated Negro Press
Earl B. Dickerson, president, National Bar Association
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
Prof. Balph H. Gundlack, University of Washington
Dashiell Hammett
Dr. Luther P. Jackson, Virginia State University
Dr. D. V. Jemison, president, National Baptist Convention of USA
Dr. David D. Jones, president, Berlnett College
Albert E. Kahn
Francis Fisher Kane
Garson Kanin
Rockwell Kent
Rev. C. Franklin Koch, executive secretary, board of social missions of the
United Lutheran Church
Prof. Walter Landauer, University of Connecticut
Katherine Locke
John Howard Lawson
Louis F. McCabe
Rev. Jack MacMichael, executive secretary, Methodist Federation for Social
Service
Carey McWilliams
Thomas Mann
Prof. W. H. Man waring
George Marshall, chairman of board. Civil Rights Congress
Prof. Kirtley F. Mather, Harvard University
Arthur Miller
Bishop Arthur W. Moulton, Protestant Episcopal Church
Dorothy Parker
Prof. John P. Peters, Yale Medical School
Dr. Harry W. Roberts, Virginia State College
Dr. Elbert Russell, dean emeritus, Divinity School, Duke University
Wm. Jay Schieffelin
Mrs. Christine S. Smith, national president. National Association of Colored
Women
Dr. Harry F. Ward
Prof. LeRoy Waterman, University of Michigan
Max Weber
William Zarach
Partial list (titles and institutions for identification only).
[From the Daily Worker, April 27, 1947, p. 25]
Texans Assail Witch Hunt Bill
Houston, Tex. — Prominent Texans have petitioned the Texas Legislature and
the Congress against the passage of legislation which they charge would consti-
tute a "suppression of ideas and political principles," it is announced by the
Texas Civil Rights Congress. The petition declares:
"A number of bills have been introduced into the Legislature of the State of
Texas and the Congress of the United States purporting to be aimed at the sup-
pression of the Communist Party * * *. We are neither members of the
Communist Party nor adherents of its political principles. These laws, however,
30 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
do not direct themselves to any acts of subversives, but.rather to a suppression of
ideas and political principles.
"This trend in our legislatures parallels a vast increase in wanton and baseless
accusations of communism in our political life. The only outcome of this dual
drive of political invective and political suppression will be to destroy the basic
tool of democracy ; free discussion."
Included among the more than 100 signers from all parts of Texas are —
Educators. — Prof. Clarence E. Avers, Dr. Wendell C. Gordon, Mrs. J. H.
Clauser, Dr. Clarence A. Wiley, Prof. Ernest A. Patterson, Dr. Harry E. Moore,
Prof. E. E. Hale, Prof. N. Peach, Prof. J. H. Morton, Prof. Howard D. Asbury.
Ministers. — Rev. Blake Smith, Rev. Fred E. Cole, Rev. L. N. Hawke, Rev.
W. H. Holland, Rev. William C. Crawford.
Labor leaders. — Ray Davidson, M. M. McKnight, Carl Garcia, Garland Butler,
Arthur Leibson, R. J. Owen, Ed. Dawley, C. A. Sanders, Ceferino Anchiando,
Juan R. Benevidez. ,
Business, professional and civic leaders. — W. M. McMillan, Kenneth Lampkin,
Regina Boyd, Mrs. U. V. Christian, Joe B. Dibrell, A. Maceo Smith, Jack Sum-
merfield, Clare Ruggles, J. J. Jones, R. D. Dickson, Arthur Ruskin, A. A. Ormsby,
C. D. Leake, Chester Frazier, Arthur De Witty, Mrs. J. E. Craft, R. H. Duncan,
Mrs. L. M. Mitchell.
Student and veteran leaders. — Melvin Webber, Stuart Chamberlin, Richard
Sterba, Mr. and Mrs. Curry Gilmore, Mac E. Wallace, Louis Watel, Monroe
Cohen, Nicholas Seidita.
. [From the Worker, Sunday, May 25, 1947, p. 9]
Five Hundred and Fifty Union Officials Assail "Red-Hunt"
Five hundred and fifty CIO and AFL union officials warned last week that the
House Un-Americans are spearheading the drive of big business against labor
"in the name of hunting Communists." The warning was contained in a state-
ment released by the Civil Rights Congress.
Names of signers are listed below:
AMERICAN communications ASSOCIATION
Joseph p. Selly, international president, New York
Lawrence F. Kelly, international vice president
Dominick Panza, international vice president. New York
Jack Winocur, international vice president. New York
A. T. Brown, northern California, chairman, San Francisco
Edward Barlow, international representative, Oakland
H. L. Rust, secretary, local 9, San Francisco
Murray Winocur, president, local 2, New York
Carl Lundquist, secretary-treasurer, local 2, San Francisco
N. B. Steinberg, district delegate, local 2, New York
F. W. Grumman, secretary-treasurer, local 10, New York
F. A. Lenahan, secretary-treasurer, local 11, New York
David Sokol, chairman, local 15, New York
John J. Wieners, chairman, local 40, New York
Louis Siebenberg, vice chairman, local 40, New York
Al Doumer, secretary-treasurer, local 40, New York
Lester Osbard, shop steward, Globe Wireless, Woodcliflfe Lake, N.
L. Monahan, chairman, local 101, Seattle
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS
Saul Waehlth, delegate, Berkeley
Joseph Mattson, international board member, Chicago
James Tate, president, local 162, Chicago
Hilliard Ellis, president, local 453, Amalgamated, Chicago
James Hamby, president. Ford local 551, Chicago
Edward Herning, trustee, local 719, electromotive, Chicagc
Percy Llewellyn, international board member, Detroit
Harold Johnson, international organizer, Detroit
Dan Radakovic, international organizer, Dearborn
Wise W. Stone, international organizer, Detroit
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 31
Carl J. Stollato, international organizer, Detroit
William 11. Johnson, recording secretary. Ford local 600, Detroit
J. G. Couser, finance secretary. Ford local 600, Detroit
Arthur McPhaul. PAC cliairman, local 600, Detroit
Alex Winton, B Building chairman, Ford local 000, Dearborn
John R. Duncan, member plant committee, Ford local 600, Detroit
Leo Fenster, secretary, Cleveland district Auto Coimcil, Cleveland
Charles K. Beckman," president, Local 45, also president, Cleveland Auto Council,
Cleveland
Joe Chaka, executive board, local 45, Cleveland
C. V. Stephenson, president, local 207, Cleveland
Robert Buse, president, local 248, Greendale, Wis.
Harold ChristofFel, honorary president, local 248, West Allis, Wis.
Joseph W. Dombek, vice president, local 248, Milwaukee
Linus Lindberg. treasurer, local 248, Greendale, Wis.
Alfred Lading, financial secretary, local 248, Milwaukee
Hodges E. Mason, president, local 208, Detroit
Fred Williams, business agent, local 208, Detroit
CLEANERS AND DYERS UNION
Solomon Weissman, president, local 364, AOW, New Haven
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO, AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA
William Sentner, international vice president, also president, district 8 UE,
St. Louis
John Bittman, international representative, Oakland
H. M. Martinson, field organizer. El Cenito, Calif.
Vincent J. Romeo, field organizer. New Haven
Ernest DeMaio, international vice president, Chicago
Alice Smith, vice president, local 11, Chicago
Bernard J. McDonough, president, local 1119, Chicago
Adam Smith, vice president, local 1119, Chicago
Alex Kampf, secretary-treasurer, local 1119, Chicago
Walter Mandra, recording secretary, local 1119, Chicago
Sam Kushner, business manager, local 1119, Chicago
V.illiam J. Brady, president, local 1149, Chicago
Pat Amato, president, local 1150, Chicago
Irving Crane, business manager, local 1150, Chicago
John's. Kelliher, president, local 1154, Chicago
Leonard Baker, vice president, local 1154, Chicago
Stanley Grabbe, financial secretary, local 1154, Chicago
Dorothy A. Lees, recording secretary, local 1154, Chicago
Robert Kirkwood, international representative, district 9, Indianapolis
Jack Myers, international representative, district 9, Baltimore
Jack Zucker, international representative, district 9, Baltimore
Hugh L. Joyce, president, local 201, Lynn, Mass.
John Bandarra, president, local 277, Boston
Joseph O'Brien, executive board, local 277, New Bedford, Mass.
Roy Rogerson, executive board, local 277, New Bedford, Mass.
Frank Parker, president, Worthington Pump,' Holyoke, Mass.
Leon Massa, business agent, Worthington Pump, Holyoke, Mass.
William Mauseth, representative, Minneapolis
Leo J. Gianannini, steward, local 1117, Minneapolis
Rudy Olson, secretary, local 1146, Minneapolis
Clarence A. Hathaway, business agent, St. Paul
C. Bingamon. president, local 810, St. Louis
Jam.es McLeish, international vice president, New Jersey
Ruth Young, secretary, district council 4, New Jersey
William Janowicz, executive board, district council 4, New Jersey
W. Hamilton, executive board, district council 4, New Jersey
Erwin A. Guttko, executive board, district council 4, New Jersey
Charles Fav, vice president, district council 4, New Jersey
Lelia Rottkamp, executive board, district council 4, New Jersey
George H. Rooney, executive board, district council 4, New Jersey
Al Stearn. executive board, district council 4, Newark
R. A. Shattuck, executive board, district council 4, Newark
32 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Arthur O'Hare, executive board, district council 4, Newark
Wesley Mitchell, Jr., executive board, district council 4, Newark
George H. Lawrence, executive board, district council 4, Newark
Peter Berch, international representative. New Jersey
Joseph Alfona, field organizer, New Jersey
Louis I. Sorti, field organizer, Newark ,
William Santors, international field organizer, Newark
John Paradine, international field organizer. New Jersey
Tom Neill, field organizer, Newark
William A. Frazier, field organizer, Camden
Ethel Carpenter, international field organizer, New Jersey, Camden
Stanley Krzyswonos, president, Mercer Hunterdon UE conference board, New
Jersey
Joseph H. Watkins, president, local 134, Camden
Samuel Goldberg, business representative, local 134, Camden
Tony Lizzano, president, local 409, New Jersey '
Emil Ashur, business agent, local 423, Newark
Marie Muriello, secretary, local 437, Newark
A. A. Burdick, business representative, local 437, Newark
Ernest Pollock, business representative, local 437, Newark
Maurice K. Slater, business manager, local 451, Phillipsburg, N. J.
Henry Fiering, international representative, Winston-Salem
Fred Keller, international representative, district 7, Cleveland
Herbert Hirschberg, international representative, Cleveland
James Divine, chief steward, Airtemp Unit, local 8, Dayton
Fred Hoag, business agent, local 707, Cleveland
Ivan Brumbaugh, local 709, North Canton .
Harry J. Bradley, local 709, Canton
Ralph D. Marcus, business agent, local 709, Canton
Joseph Kres, district vice president, Cleveland
Paul Shepard, business agent, local 735, Cleveland
Marie Pieed, business agent, local 735, Cleveland
Dave Davis, business agent, local 155, Philadelphia
Thomas Hockenberry, president, local 601, Pittsburgh
Nathan Daniel, vice president, local 1227, Long Island
James Garry, business manager, local 1227, Long Island
Vincent Perillo, vice president, local 1227, Long Island
Edward N. Washington, president, local 1227, Long Island
William Harper, assistant chief steward, local 601, Pittsburgh
Charles Marcum, president, local 754, Dayton
David Tincher, president, local 768, Dayton
Ernest C. Ketzel, recording secretary, local 768, Dayton
Bebe Ober, educational director, local 768, Dayton
Andrew T. Gad, representative, local 768, Dayton
K. M. Kirkendall, business agent, local 768, Dayton
Arthur L. Garfield, international representative, Dayton
L. B. Slagle, field organizer, Cleveland
John Mitchell, field organizer, Dayton
Louis L. Kaplan, field organizer, Dayton
Robert A. Harrison, field organizer, Dayton
Helen Pope, secretary joint wage commission, Dayton
Philip H. Van Gelder, field organfzer, Dayton
James Price, international vice president, Philadelphia
Thomas F. Delaney, secretary, district council 1, Philadelphia
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, international vice president, Pittsburgh
Stephen Dochmal, shop chairman, local 155, Philadelphia
Fred W. Eoettger, executive board member, local 155; also sergeant at arms,
Philadelphia
Marcus Gaylburd, shop chairman, local 155; also secretary veterans committee,
Philadelphia
Charles Kenneck, building trustee, local 155, Philadelphia
Thomas Mandarine, president, local 451, Easton, Pa.
Philip H. Smith, international representative, Milwaukee
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 33
UNITED FARM EQUIPMENT AND METAL WORKERS UNION
Grant Oakcs, international president, Chicago
Gerald Fickle, international seeretary-treasnrcr, Chicago
Pope HufF, international board n\eniber at large, Chicago
Charles E. I.awton, president, district 1, Chicago
John ShafTer, international vice president, Chicago
Milt liiirns, international organization, director, Chicago
James De \Vitt, Wisconsin field director, Milwaukee
FOOD, TOBACCO, AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED WORKERS OF AMERICA
Donald Henderson, general president. Pl;iladeli:)hia
Rufns Bell, president. Salt River Valley division, local 78, Phoenix, Ariz.
Charles J. Feller, International organizer. Phoenix, Ariz.
James Patton, executive board, local 78, Phoenix, Ariz.
Robert Latham, international vice president, Winston-Salem
Christina Gardner, international organizer, Winston-Salem
Frank Green, international organizer, W'inston-Salem
Velma Hopkins, international organizer, Winston-Salem
A. M. Alejandro, international representative, Berkeley
Pablo S. Valdez, business agent, local 7, San Francisco
Angelina Goulaite, secretary-treasurer, local 50, Oakland
Fred Less, international organizer, Tampa
Edwin C. Waller, international representative, Miami
Jessica Rhine, regional director, Indianapolis
James Barnett, international organizer, Indianapolis
Emil Dean, international organizer, Indianapolis
Albert A. O'Brien, international representative. New Orleans
Frank Bruno, general organizer, Louisiana Shrimp \Yorkers Council, New Orleans
Robert W. Lee, international representative, Baltimore
Lewis C. Bentzley, regional director, Camden
Lucy Aiello, president, local 56, New Jersey
Florence Mercantina, vice president, local 56, New .Jersey
Herbert Kling, president, local 80, Camden
Anthony Valentino, business agent, local 80, Camden
Ed McCrea, international board member, W^inston-Salem
John C. Hunt, business agent, local 26, Wlnston-Salem
Moranda Smith, international board member, V/inston-Salem
Frank V. Patterson, international organizer, Portland, Oreg.
Benjamin Butler, chief steward, local 80, Philadelphia
L. E. McGurty, chief steward, local 80, Charleston
Sidney Fishman, chief steward, local 80, Charleston
Karl korstad, local organizer, Memphis
Jaqueline Nelson, international representative, Houston
Jack Frye, business agent, local 75 Jacinto City, Tex.
Louis Kalb, international organizer, Richmond
Evetta J. Hamp, secretary-treasurer, local 45, Richmond
Harry ^'irgil, regional director, Milwaukee
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF FISHERMEN AND ALLIED WORKERS OF AMERICA
J. F. Jurich, international president, Seattle
Anton Susanj, secretary-treasurer, district 3, Seattle
John Tadich, business "agent. District 3, Tacoma 1, W^ash.
Oscar Anderson agent for Seattle, Alaska Fishermen, Seattle
E. M. Berg, business agent, Alaska fishermen, Seattle
Hans A. Hansen, Seattle agent, Alaska
INTERNATIONAL FUR & LEATHER WORKERS UNION
Pietro Lucchi, international secretary-treasurer, New York ,
Ben Gold, international president
Harold L. Shapiro, regional director, Detroit
Clarence H. Carr, local 202, Gloversville, N. Y.
Ruth Siegel, educational director, joint bonrd, Essex, N. J.
George Marlow, business agent, local 48, Easton, Pa,
34 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Irving Potash, international vice president, New York
Abe Feinglass, international vice president, Chicago
Lou Goldstein, midwest manager, Chicago
Hardy Scott, district representative, Asheville, N. C.
Anthony Baratta, organizer. Fur Dressers and Dyers, local 80, Fairhaven, N. J.
Phil Klurman, business agent, local 85, Essex County, N. J.
Santo Beracqua, president, local 140, Essex
George O. Pershing, district director, Williamsport, Pa.
Joseph C. EUie, president, local 47, Milwaukee
UNITED FURNITURE WORKERS OF AMERICA
Morris Pizer, international president, New York
Max Perlow, international secretary-treasurer. New York
Michael Tyson, organizer, — New Haven
George L. Beaumont, business manager, local 105, Deep River, Conn. •
David Peterson, executive board member, local 105, Deep River, Conn.
Sam Fox, organizer, Baltimore
Max Weinstock, Baltimore
C. J. Bettini, secretary, local 137, Springfield, Mass.
Peter DiGiacomo, business manager, Boston, Pa.
Ernest Marsh, international vice president, Los Angeles
Nick Blattner, international vice president, Chicago
UNITED GAS, COKE & CHEMICAL WORKERS OF AMERICA
Fred Hamilton, international executive board, district 3, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Frank Novick, president, local 121, Brooklyn
Jasper Grassa, financial secretary, local 121, Brooklyn
Alcott Tyler, business manager, local 121, Brooklyn
David Elliott, international board member, Newark
Paul Zazrivy, president. Greater Cleveland district council, Cleveland
FEDERATION OF GLASS, CERAMIC &. SILICA SAND WORKERS OF AMERICA
Marco Massola, vice chairman, local 12, Pittsburgh
Joseph Sodecky, Jr., financial secretary, local 12, Pittsburgh
Anthony Gabrish, vice chairman, local 17, Pittsburgh
INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S WORKERS UNION
Harry Bridges, international president, San Francisco
Joseph Lynch, vice president, local 6, San Francisco
Paul Heide, local 6, vice president, Oakland
Richard Lynden, secretary-treasurer, local 6, San Francisco
Robert A. Moore, local 6, business agent, Oakland
Charles Duarte, business agent, local 6, San Francisco
Ray Heide, business agent, local 6, Oakland
Joseph Nuzio, business agent, local 6, San Francisco
C. J Meske, international representative. New Orleans
Andrew Nelson, president, local 207, New Orleans
August Harris, business agent, local 207, New Orleans
Joseph Henderson, international representative, Baltimore
Leroy Faegler, international representative. Warehouse and Distributor Workers
of America, Cleveland
Tom J. V/arren, business agent, Dallas
Charles W. Otto, dispatcher, local 1-7, Seattle.
A. Lawrence, dispatcher, local 1-9, Seattle
J. Stevens, dispatcher, local 1-9, Seattle ~ »
I. E. Stevens, secretary, local 32, Seattle
Bernard Lucas, Midwest division, Chicago
*
NATIONAL MARITIME COOKS AND STEWARDS ASSOCIATION
Hugh Bryson, president, San Francisco
Harry Nehrebecki, dispatcher, San Francisco
Irv Dvorin, port agent, Baltimore
Sidney Kaufman, port agent. New York
C. E. Johanson, patrolman. New York
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 36
Alfred Jcwett, patrolman, New York
William F. O. Gorman, dispatcher, New York
E. M. Tangcn, assistant business agent, Seattle
NATIONAL MARINE ENGINEERS BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION
Arthur Coco, editor, New York
James RomanotT, assistant business manager. New York
R. E. Goforth, assistant business manager, Norfolk
INDUSTRIAL UNION MARINE AND SHIPBUILDING WORKERS OF AMERICA
Milton Self, chairman, local 24, Baltimore.
NATIONAL MARITIME UNION
Jack Lawrenson, vice president. New York
Howard McKcnzie, vice president, New York
Chester Younfr, temporary vice president, New York
Ferdinand C. Smith, secretary, New York
M. H. Stone, treasurer, New York.
Pete Smith, national organizctionrJ director, New York
Bill McCarthy, national director, New York
Louis Diaz, national director, New York.
Lowell Chamberlin, editor. The Pilot, New York
Francis Garth, assistant editor, The Pilot, New York
William Chondor, patrolman. New Orleans
Charles J. McCarthy, af^ent, Boston
Clyde Drake, agent, Detroit
John Ecker, agent, Duluth
M. Davis, agent, St. Louis
Morton Davis, agent, St. Louis
John Rogan, chairman, port commissioner, New York
Sol Renzi, chief dispatchet. New York
Charles Obermeier, educator, New York
George Schwartz, as.=ista.nt agent, New York
Paul Palazzi, agent. New York
Fred G. Wynters, dispatcher, New York
A. Diaz, dispatcher, New York
Herbert AL Sofield, dispatcher, New York
R. Nesbitt, dispatcher. New York
Joe Keller, patrolman, New York
J. Higgins, patrolman, New York
Benito Hernandez, patrolman, New York
George Green, patrolman, New York
Joseph Fuchs, patrolman, New York
Victor Durham, patrolman. New York
James M. Corbett, ps/crolman. New York
Anne L. Conroy, patrolman. New York
Lawrence Burke, patrolman. New York
John Anderson, patrolman. New York
Manuel Querol, patrolman, New York
A. Summers, patrolman. New York
Al Mooney, patrolman. New York
Frank Leason, patrolman. New York
D. Jimi Gavin, tanker patrolman. New York
Philip Miller, port commissioner, New York
Charles Miller, port commissioner, New York
Edward Gordon, port commissioner, New York
J. Alejandro, port commissioner, New York
Josh Lawrence, director of organization, Great Lakes area, Cleveland
Mike Vareco, organizer. Great Lakes area, Cleveland
Samuel Waitzman, publicity director. Great Lakes area, Cleveland
Philip N. Smith, patrolman, Portland
Robert W. New, Jr., acting agent, Charleston, S. C.
William E. Davis, agent, Memphis
James P. Boyle, agent, Houston
Jack Smith, agent, Seattle
36 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Vernon Bown, patrolman, Seattle
Robert H. Kinney, patrolman, Seattle
L. J. Piloman, agent, Milwaukee
Jack A. Kramer, patrolman, Milwaukee
Constance Lamb, New York
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL AND SMELTER WORKERS
Maurice E. Travis, international president, Chicago
John Clark, international secretary-treasurer, Chicago
Ken Echert, international executive board; also chairman, die-casting division,
Chicago
C. J. Powers, international board member, San Francisco
Albert Pezzati, international representative, Waterbury, Conn, '
William Gately, international representative, Connecticut
A. C. Skinner, international representative, Chicago
Paul Brodnansky, business agent, local 735-A
Ray Dennis, business agent, local 735-A, Cleveland
Edward Radden, president, local 755, Cleveland
Silverio Alva, president, local 509, El Paso, Tex.
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER GUILD
John Ryan, executive vice president. New York Guild
Julius Klyman, executive board member, St. Louis Guild ^
George Londa, executive board member, St. Louis Guild
UNITED OFFICE AND PROFESSIONAL WORKERS OF AMERICA
John J. Stanley, international secretary-treasurer. New York City
Joseph H. Levy, international vice president, New York City
Bernard Young, regional representative, Berkeley, Calif.
Louis Fowlks, business agent, local 225, Oakland, Calif,
Morris YanofT, Midwest regional director, Chicago
George Hansen, assistant regional director, Chicago
B. FonorofT, organizer, Chicago
Laura Epstein, district representative, local 39, Chicago
Frank Manago, president, local 78, Chicago
Lillian Finn, president, local 12, Baltimore
Robert Goodman, regional director, New England, Boston
Eileen Bettercourt, business agent, local 68, Boston
Jerome Shore, regional director, Detroit
Christine Walker, president, local 26, Detroit
James I^. Whitehouse, regional representative, Boston
Frank Engelberg, regional director, Newark
William Rosenthal, regional representative, Newark
Ernest De Fronzo, regional representative, Newark
Frieda A. Frith, regional representative, Newark
Perry Zimmerman, organizer, Newark
Fred M. Baker, president, local 241, Camden, N. J.
Anne Berenholz, regional director, Cleveland
Mrs. M. June Kaplan, treasurer, local 6, Dayton, Ohio
Harriette E. Dennett, president, local 35, Seattle, Wash,
Ethel Isaacs, recording secretary, local 43, Milwaukee
UNITED PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS OF AMERICA
Herbert March, international board member, Chiciigo
Sam Parks, president, Wilson local 25, and secretary district council 1, Chicago
Joseph Besenhoffer, president, Armour local
John Mitchel, regional director. New England, Boston
James Carr. representative, St. Louis, Mo.
Meyer E. Stern, international board member, New York City
UNITED PAPERWORKERS OF AMERICA
Gustave Caporale, president, local 70, Pittsburgh
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 37
UNITED RETAIL, WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT STORE EMPLOYEES OF AMERICA
Arthur Osmar, international vice president, New York
Sam Kovenctsky, president, local 1-S, New York City
Marcella Loring, first vice president, local 1-S, New York City
Victor Lopos, second vice president, local 1-S, New York City
William Michelson, president, local 2, New York City
Samuel Lewis, local 3, New York City
Stanley LaValle, local 3, New York City
John I.arsen, local 3, New York City
Jack Greenbera;, local 830, New York City
Louis Basis, local 830, New York Citv
Alfred Recen, local 830, New York C"itv
Albert R. Turbane, local 830, New York City
Nathan Solomon, local 830, New York Citv
Nathan Nattman, local 830, New York Citv
Philip Lesten, local 830, New York City
W. E. Wilson, president, local 495, Dallas, Tex.
Ben T. Berman, manager, local 144, New York
UNITED RUBBER WORKERS
Joseph W. Smith, president, local 217, Garfield, N. J.
George Milliron, president, local 2, Akron, Ohio
David R. McCann, vice president, local 2, Akron, Ohio
W. L. Vaught, international board member, Akron, Ohio
George R. Bass, president, local 5, Goodrich, Akron, Ohio
Joe Childs, president, local 9, Akron, Ohio
UNITED SHOE WORKERS OP AMERICA
T. Rosenberg, international vice president, New York
Julius Crane, international vice president, Chicago
Sam Appel, international representative, Massachusetts
Joseph Shaffer, international representative, Philadelphia
R. Hogan, international board member, St. Louis
Milton Filker, regional director, Endicott, N. Y.
Arthur Kostove, international representative, Endicott, N. Y.
John Agnese, organizer, local 54, New York City
Sol Reinstein, business agent, local 54, New York City
Murray Gold, business agent, local 54, New York City-
Leon Rabinowitz, business agent, local 54, New York City
Ted Tudesco, business agent, local 54, New York City
Anthony Scimeca, coordinator, local 54, New York City
Cecil Nash, international representative, Lynchburg, Va.
James C. Crist. Lynchburg, Va.
John A. Wilmer, president, local 90, Lynchburg, Va.
UNITED STEEL WORKERS OF AMERICA
Charles Wells, business agent, local 1789, Oakland, Calif.
Frank E. Opal, chairman of steward body, local 2047, Chicago
Walenty Wojik, trustee, local 2047, Chicago
Amos B. Murphy, president, local 1159, Akron, Ohio
Mike Pchiro, president, local 1331, Youngstown, Ohio
Chester Crosby, treasurer, local 1331, Youngstown, Ohio
J. R. Moore, recording secretary, local 1331, Youngstown, Ohio
E. J. Reinthaler, chairman, veterans committee, local 1331, Youngstown, Ohio
Lewis T. Jones, financial secretary, local 1375, Southington, Ohio
Frank Wiln, trustee, local 1375, Warren, Ohio
Victor Brooks, president, local 1519, Cleveland, Ohio
Thomas Pycraft, secretary, local 1104, Lorain, Ohio
George Edwards, editor, Lorain Labor, leader and trustee, local 1104, Lorain,
Ohio.
Jo.seph Robinson, executive board, local 1276, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Theodore Dennis, trustee, local 2596, Bethlehem, Pa.
Herman Thomas, trustee, local 2600, Bethlehem
38 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Clinton Carlton, president, Mullens Manufacturing local, Warren, Ohio
Tom Kelly, board member, local 1G5, Chicago
Joe Cook, president, local 1029, Chicago
STONE AND ALLIED QUARRY WORKERS
Alec Wright, international representative, Pittsburgh
TEXTILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA
Sonia Baltrum, international representative, San Francisco
Mary Figurcido, vice president, local 19, New Bedford, Mass.
Manuel Coito, vice president, local 595, New Bedford, Mass.
Ben Maurey, business agent Passaic joint board, Passaic, N. J.
Hymnn Gurinsky, president, local 75, Paterson, N. J.
Gus Hughes, secretary-treasurer, local 75, Paterson, N. J.
George Eardley, executive board member, local 75, Paterson, N. J.
Frank Pagano, executive board, local 1733, Paterson, N. J.
Charles Lazzio, president, local 1733, Paterson, N. J. ,
John Lydig, business agent, Totov.a Borough, N. J.
John Soolzitti, president, Dololiin Tate local, Paterson. N. J.
Boyd E. Payton, director, Lynchburg, Va.
TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION
Michael J. Quill, international president. New York City
Douglas L. MacMahon, International secretary -treasurer
William Grogan, international representative, San Francisco
Henry S. Foley, president, San Francisco
M. L. Edwards, president, local 500, Miami
David O. Frazier, treasurer, local 500, IMiami
P. H. Schefisky, chairman, local 500, Miami
Pete Piket, executive board, local 500, Miami
James M. Powell, executive board, local 500, Miami
Richard L. Avery, board chairman, local 500, IMiami
Raymond R. Tillman, international executive board. New Orleans
Ernest Scott, president, local 206, New Orleans
Herman C. Gray, secretary -treasurer, local 2C6, New Orleans
Alvin Green, international representative, Texas
UTILITY WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA
Charles Bloomer, Jr., director, joint council, northern California, Oakland
Angela Ward, international representative, San Francisco
Dan Stofie, publicity director, Oakland
Harry L. Harris, secretary, joint council, northern California, Oakland
Lou Hames, Oakland
James A. Cuthill, business representative, local 133, San Francisco
Alvin C. Rowe, president, local 133, San Francisco
INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA
Tlmar Koivunen, international executive board, Duluth
Martin Kuusisto, secretary-treasurer, local 29, Duluth
Karly Larsen, first vice president, Seattle
Walter Brlka, secretary, northern Washington district council, Seattle
William Wallace, president, district 2, Seattle
Frank J. Gerber, secretary-treasurer, local 2-46, Seattle
Karl Atterberry, secretary, local 2-54, Seattle
Giles C. Evans, business agent, local 2-75, Seattle
Herman Hartzell, president, local 2-101, Seattle
Fred Gary, business agent, local 330, Billingham, Wash;
John Cchuberger, vice president, local 6349, Billingham, Wash.
COUNCILS
Mervyn Rathborne, secretary, State CIO council, San Francisco
Ole Fagerbaugh, secretary-treasurer, Alameda County CIO Council, Oakland
Olive Chase, secretary, CIO Council, New Haven
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS 39
John G. Lackner, president, Florida State Council, Tampa
Chailes N. SniolkoIT, director, Florida State Council, Miami
Tracy M. Doll, director, Wayne County PAC, Detroit
Samuel Sage, secretary, Wayne Countj^ CIO Council, Detroit
Norton Bloom, executive secretary. Greater Newark CIO Council, Newark
Walter Barry, president, Greater Newark CIO Council, Newark
John renello, chairman, PAC Passaic County CIO Council, Passaic
Manuel Kurzberg, executive secretary, Passaic County, CIO Council, Passaic
Charles Sonain, president, Passaic County CIO Council, Passaic
Charles E. Sims, president, Montgomery County lUC, Dayton, Ohio
Ernest ISIoyer, president, ClO Council of Northampton County, AUcntown, Pa.
Clinton Carlton, president, Trumbull Countv lUC CIO, Warren, Ohio
Carl C. Garcia, president. El Paso County lUC CIO, El Paso, Tex.
Gertrude H. Ranson, secretary. Blue Ridge lUC, Lynchburg, Va.
A. A. Fisher, secretary-treasurer, Washington State lUC, Pinehurst, Wash;
Hilda Hanson, executive secretary, Seattle CIO Council, Seattle 1, Wash.
James A. Fox, legislative representative, Pennsylvania Brotherhood of Loco-
motive Firemen and Enginemen, Harrisburg
Jos. R. Chase, legislative representative. Lodge 507, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, Boston
Jose Gonzalez, president, Bakfery and Confectionery Workers Local 361, Tempe
Joseph Cappadona, business representative, Ba,kery and Confectionery Workers
Local 3, Brooklyn
Jack Curylo, business representative, Bakery and Confectionery Workers Local 3,
Brooklyn
Max Rothstein, secretary, Barbers Union Local 502, Philadelphia
Willis W. Simmons, executive board, Brewer}- and Soft Drink Workers Union,
Easton
Charles Witmer, Building and Construction Trades Council, AUentown
Mervin L. Cole, secretary. Building Service L'nion Local 6, Seattle
George S. Brees, president, Carpenters and Joiners Local 2637, Seattle
John Zelipsky, treasurer, Chemical Workers Local 14, Cliffside, N. J.
Frank Diez, fifth vice president, Cigar Makers International Union, also:
president joint advisory board, Tampa, Fla.
Mauricio Torre, sixth vice president. Cigar Makers International Union, Tampa
Mario Azpeitia, seventh vice president, Cigar Makers International Union, Tampa
Louis Ornitz, international organizer, Cigar JNIakers International Union, Tampa
John Terleski. secretarj^ Cleaners and Dyers Local 12, Cleveland
Francisco Rodriguez, secretary, Cooks and Waiters International Union Local
104, Tampa
Sol Sniderman, business agent. Firemen and Oilers Local 32, Detroit
I. J. Murray, vice president. International Hod Carriers, Dallas
Jose Estrada, executive board. International Hod Carriers, Dallas
Jose J. Cabello, trustee. International Hod Carriers, Dallas
Raymond Wright, business agent. Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 665,
]\Iinneapolis
Nellie Stone, board member, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 665, Minneapolis
John Steuben, secretary-treasurer, Hotel Front Service Union Local 144, Nevy
York
Nick Lazari, business agent. Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 287, Pittsburgh
George Nichols, emploj'ment manager, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 237,
Pittsburgh
Esther Schweitzer, member joint board. International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, Cleveland
Lillian Franyin, member joint board, International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, Cleveland
Maurice G. Harman, president. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union,
Local 212, Harrisburg, Pa.
James B. Nimmo, national representative, Laundry Workers Union Local 222,
Miami
W. G. Stone, president, International Longshoremen's Association Local 1400,
St. Louis
William Westbrook, president. International Longshoremen's Association Local
1401, St. Louis
M. Abramowitz, executive board, Luggage Workers Local 61, Philadelphia
Joseph Dimow, treasurer, Elm Lodge 420, International Association of Machinists,
New Haven
40 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
F. B. Gerhart, president, National Match Workers Council, Barberton, Ohio
A. Eleff, steward, Meat Cutters and Butchers, Cleveland
Shriley Johnson, vice president. Meat Cutters and Butchers, Richmond^
W. Carter, chaplain, Meat Cutters and Butchers, Richmond
Andrew J. Monroe, president. Meat Cutters and Butchers, Local 432, Richmond
Fannie Boiling, recording secretary. Meat Cutters and Butchers Local 432,
Richmond
Leroy Whaley, sergeant at arms, Meat Cutters and Butchers Local 432, Richmond
Edward Choka, member District Conference Board International Moulders
Union, Cleveland
Carl Mitch, committeeman. International Moulders Union, Cleveland
Clyde Higgins, secretary -treasurer, International Moulders Union (Iron Molders),
Dallas
Frank Casey, executive board member, Moving Picture Operators Local 143, St.
Louis
Ben Scher, business representative. Moving Picture Operators Local 306, Brook-
lyn
L. Fabian, business agent. Painters Local 37, Detroit ,
Courtney Ward, secretary. Painters District Council 8, Cleveland
R. Rymus, secretarj', Painters Local 867, Cleveland
H. W. Lindlow, secretary. Painters Local 592, Seattle
S. T. Wagner, business agent, Pile Drivers Local 34, San Francisco
Dave Williams, business agent, Pile Drivers Local 34, San Francisco
Herman B. Hughes, chairman, Typographical Union, Houston
James Dimakes, president. Miscellaneous Restaurant, Local 110, San Francisco
Joseph Ruccio, secretary. United Slate, Tile, and Composition Roofers, Local 46,
Allentown, Pa.
Frank Dutto, president. Bakers Local 1, New York
Ben Tiedeman, secretary, Bakers Local 1, New York
Oscar Schindler, manager, Bakers Local 579, New York
Julius Meyerowitz, business agent, Bakers Local 579, New York
Louis Altman, business agent. Bakers Local 164, New York
Ruby Marcus, manager, Paper Workers Local 107, New York
Louie Weinstock, secretary, Painters District Council 19, New York
John McAvinney, recording secretary. Central Labor Union, New York
A. J. Reed, assistant business agent. International Association of Machinists, Local
79, Seattle
Harold Johnson, assistant business agent, International Association of Machinists,
Local 79, Seattle
John Goodman, international vice president. Building Service International
Union, New York
Andrew Leredu, president, Jewelry Local 1, New York
Isadore Kahn, secretary-treasurer. Jewelry Local 1, New York
Saul Kreas, business representative. Painters Local 186, New Haven
Jules C. Abercaugh, business agent. Jewelry Workers Local 5, Philadelphia
Herman Goffer, business agent, Pocketbook Workers Union, Bronx
John R. Gerlach, organizer, Restaurant Workers CIO, Detroit
Paul Demeny, organizer, Hotel and Restaurant Workers CIO, Detroit
J. L. Mahady, State director Louisiana SFTW, New Orleans
(All organizations and titles listed for purpose of identification only.)
Civil Rights Congress
205 East Forty-second Street, New York 17, N. Y.
Statements filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the
Lobbying Act, January 10, 1947.
contributions of $500 OR MORE
Leo S. Bing, 119 West Fortieth Street, New York City,
George Marshall, 38 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
Robert Marshall Foundation, 38 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
Raymond C. Ingersoll, 350 Cabrini Boulevard, New York City.
Frasier McCann, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.
Dashiell Hammett, Hardscrabble Farm, Pleasantville, N. Y.
International Fur and Leather Workers Union, 251 Fourth Avenue, New York
City.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
41
Julius Rubin, 4510 Beach Fortv-fifth Street, Sea Gate, N. Y.
UERMWA, 11 East Fifty-first Street, New York City.
Civil Rights Congress of New York, 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York City.
Total sum of contributions made to Civil Rights Congress during
the calendar vear and not stated under paragraph (1) (October 1,
1946, to date) . $21,249. 12
Total sum of all contributions made to Civil Rights Congress during
the calendar year (October 1, 1946, to date) 36, 546. 65
Items from detailed statement of expenditures
Name
Emanuel Bloch
Frank Blumenfeld
Lawrence Brown
Ray Elson
Laurent Frantz
Percy Greene
Dorothy Faulkner
Esther Gellman
Benjamin Goldring
Milton Kaufman
Milton N. Kemnitz
Ethel Livingston
Victoria Martin...
Amy Miyagawa
New York Civil Rights
Congress.
Do
Dixon Pylcs
Ralph Powe
Prisoners' relief.
Kathryn Pankey..
Gladys Pollin
Jack Rollins
Esther Romanofl..
Recia Sobelson
Harold Swiss
Beatrice Schneller.
UERMW....
Total expendi-
tures.
Address
270 Broadway, New York
Citv.
3S32 Poplar Ave., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
ISfi West 135th St., New
York Citv.
101 West IGth St., New
York City.
101 Bowlirig Ave., Nash-
ville, Tenn.
Jackson Advocate, Jackson,
Miss.
360 West 117th St., New
York Citv.
235 IV-ount Hope PI., Bronx,
N. Y.
121 Howard Ave., Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
183 Columbia Heights,
Brooklvii, N. Y.
78-09 135th St., Flushing,
Lono; Islnnd. N. Y.
208 East 28th St., New York
City.
284 Quincy St., Brookljm,
N. Y.
160 Claremont Ave., New
York Citv.
112 East 19th St., New York
Citv.
do-- -
423 J.« East Capitol St., Jack-
son, Miss.
700 Mason St., BrookljTi,
N. Y.
270 St. Nicholas Ave., New
York City..
310 West 97th St., New
York City.
49 Macdougal St., New
York Citv.
203 West 74th St., New
York Citv.
508 West 114th St., New
York City.
1215 50th St., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
152 West 72d St., New York
Citv.
1029 Vermont Ave. NW.,
Washington, D. C.
Amount
$825.00
242. GO
50.00
641.42
982.50
410.00
213. 90
632.82
368.20
1,257.08
989. 80
14.85
583.64
39.81
2, 650. 00
10.00
500.00
380. 00
315.28
218. 85
104. 17
188. 55
780. 50
132.20
195. 30
118. 34
45.00
28, 352. 42
Date
Nov. 25-Dec. 20.
Oct. 4-
Oct. 17
Oct. 4-Jan. 3
..-.do
Oct. 15-17..
Nov, 22-Jan. 3..
Oct. 4-Jan. 3
do-
Nov. 8
Oct. 4-Jan. 3
Oct. 16...
Oct. 4-Jan. 3
Sept. 27-Oot. 4..
Oct. 22-Dec. 2...
Oct. 29
Oct. U-Nov. 22-
Oct. 4-Jan. 3
Oct.30-Dec. 27..
Oct. 4-18
Oct. 11-18
Oct. 4-18
Oct. 11-Jan. 3--.
Oct. 4-18
Oct. 4-Nov. 8...
Dec. 20-Jan. 3...
Dec. 13
Item
Leeal services and
expenses.
Salary.
Accompanist »t
public dinner.
Salary.
Salary and expen-
ses.
Travel expenses.
Salary.
Do.
Do.
Salary and travel
expenses.
Salary.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Proceeds from pub-
lic dinner.
Refund on mem-
bership.
Legal services and
expenses.
Do.
Aid given to 35
prisoners and
their families.
Salary.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Office rental.
Civil Rights Congress
205 East Forty-second Street, New York 17, N. Y.
Statement filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the-
Lobbying Act, April 2, 1947.
42
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $500 OR MORE
Louise Bransten, 505 Fifth Avenue, Room 707, New Yorli City.
Dashiell Hammett, Hardscrabble Farm, Pleasantville, N. Y.
Elinor Ingersoll, 350 Cabrini Boulevard, New York City.
Rajanond C. Ingersoll, 350 Cabrini Boulevard, New York City.
Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress, 206 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
George Marshall, 38 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
Robert Marshall Foundation, 38 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
New York Civil Rights Congress, 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York City.
Contributions made and not stated above $6, 123. 53
Total sum of all contributions 19, 517. 85
Items from detailed statement of expenditures
Name
Hilda Eisler (Mrs.
Gerhart Eisler).
R. O. Everett-
Ray Eslon.-
Dorothy Faulkner
Federated Press.
Esther Gellman.
Benjamin Goldring
Percy Greene
Raymond C. Ingersoll..
Milton Kaufman
Do.
Milton N. Kemnitz
Do..
Carol King
Levine & Schlesinger...
George Marshall
Victoria Martin ._
New York Civil
Eights Congress.
Do
Samuel Neubui'ger.
Ralph Powe
Do...
Dixon L. Pyles
Prisoners Relief
Esther Romanoff-
Beatrice Schneller.
Address
48-46 47th St., Woodside,
Long Island, N. Y.
Durham, N. C.
Transport Workers
Union Local 206.
UERMW
Total sum of ex-
penditures.
161 West 16th St., New York
Citv.
119 East 102d St., New York
City.
25 Astor PI., New York City.
235 Mount Hope PI., Bronx,
N. Y.
121 Howard Ave., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Jackson, Miss
351 Cabrini Blvd., New
York City.
18.3 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
do
78-9 135th St., Flushing,
Long Island, N. Y.
do
220 Broadway, New York
City.
National Press Bldg., Wash-
ington, 4, D. C.
38 East 57th St., New York
City.
284 Quincy St., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
112 East 19th St., New York
City.
do
61 Broadway, New York
City.
735 Macon St., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
do
423!-^ East Capitol St.,
Jackson, Miss.
203 West 74th St., New
York City.
152 V/est 72d St., New York
City.
420 Gravier St., New
Orleans, La.
1029 Vermont Ave., NW.,
Washington, D. C.
Amount
$506. 05
564. 30
544. 39
197. 48
49.25
507.%
315. 00
45. 00
150. 00
937. 20
340. 14
848. 40
392. 87
3, 127. 74
25.00
150. 00
467. 82
1, 600. 00
642.80
219.92
326. 70
360.00
1,250.00
475. 91
817.05
14.84
214.80
90.00
Date
Item
Mar. 8-21.
25, 786. 65
Jan. 10..
Jan. 10-Mar. 28.
do
Jan. 16-Mar. 7_.
Jan. 10-Mar. 28.
do
Jan. 31.
Mar. 2.
Jan. 10-Mar. 28.
Jan. 10-Mar. 31.
Jan. 10-Mar. 28.
Jan. 10-Mar. 31.
Mar. 5-10
Mar. 20
Mar. 2_
Jan. 10-28
Mar. 17
Jan 10-Mar. 31..
Jan. 22
Jan. 10-Mar. 28.
Jan. 10-Mar. 31.
Jan. 16-31
Jan. 10-Mar. 31.
Jan. 10-Mar. 28.
do
Jan. 16...
do
Advance expense
on national
speaking lour.
Legal fee and ex-
penses.
Net salary.
Do.
Mats.
Net salary.
Do.
Telephone expense.
Loan payable.
Net salary.
Fares, field trips,
etc.
Net salary.
Fares, field trips,
etc.
Legal services and
expoiises.
Legal services.
Loan payable.
Net salary.
Loan receivable.
Refund; share of
contributions.
Fare and field ex-
penses.
Net salary.
Field trips, fare
and expenses.
Legal fees.
MA given to 34
prisoners and
their families.
Net salary.
Do.
Field expense.
Rental of Wash-
ington office.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
43
Civil Rights Congress
205 East Forty-second Street, New York 17, N. Y.
Statement filed wiih the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the Lobby-
ing Act, July 7, 1947.
contributions
Contributions of $500 or more:
Bernard Ades, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Lionel Berman, 66 Barrow Street, New York City.
Louise Branstcn, 66 Barrow Street, New York City.
Communist Party, 35 East Twelfth Street. New York City.
Katharine L. Harris, Chappaqua, N. Y.
Lenient Harris, Chapj^aqua, N. Y.
Elinor Ingersoll, 350 Cabrini Boulevard, New York City.
Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress, 206 Soutli Spring Street, Los- Angeles,
Calif.
Frasier McCann, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.
George Marshall, 38 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
Civil Rights Congress of New York, 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York
City.
Milton Paulson, 295 Madison Avenue, New York City.
Contributions not listed above. $13, 961. 72
Total sum of all contributions 47, 555. 03
Items from detailed statement of expenditures
Name
Bernard Ades
Amalgamated Bank
Do
Do
Amalgamated Travel
Bureau.
William Bidner
Gerhart Eisler_
Hilda Eisler....
Ray Elson
Lawrence Emery
R. d. Everett,.
Dorothy Faulkner
Federated Press.
Stephen Fritchman
Esther Gellman
Benjamin Goldring
Raymond C. Ingersoll..
A. J. Isserman
Albert Kahn...
Milton Kaufman
Do
Milton N. Kemnitz
Do
Carol King
Levine and Schlesinger.
Address
505 5th Ave., New York
City.
11 Union Square, New York
City.
do._
do._..
do
206 South Spring St., Los
Angeles, Calif.
48-4G47th St., Woodside,
N. Y.
do
161 West 16th
York City.
434 Lafayette
York City.
Durham, N. C.
St., New
St., New
119 East 102d St., New York
City.
133 West 44th St., New York
City.
6 Greenough Ave., Jamaica
Plain, N. Y.
235 Mount Hope PI., Bronx,
N. Y.
121 Howard Ave., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
351 Cabrini Blvd., New
York Citv.
133 West 44th St., New York
City.
White Hill Rd., Yorktown
Heights, N. Y.
183 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
do.
78-09 135th St.,
N. Y.
do.
Flushing
220 Broadway, New York
City.
National Press Bldg., Wash-
ington, D. C.
Amount
$125. 00
1, 092. 20
1, 500. 00
901.32
112.82
300. 00
461. 00
681.05
1, 122. 89
50.00
617. 30
357. 16
49.25
24.00
1, 058. 25
394.50
150. 00
2,000.00
12.50
1, 987. 60
688.18
1, 767. 50
607.02
5, 877. 74
50.00
Date
May 9-June 13..
Jan. 10-June 27..
Jan. 15-June 13..
Mar. 12
May 2
June 24.
Apr. 16- June 26.
Mar. 8-May 23.
Jan. 10-June 27..
June 19
Jan. 10-May23-.
Jan. 10-May 9...
Jan. 16-Mar. 7..
June 9
Jan. 10-June 27..
Jan. lO-Apr. 18..
Mar. 2
May 29-June 13.
Apr. 21
Jan. 10-June 27..
Jan. 10-June 26..
Jan. 10-June 27..
Jan. 10-May 16..
Mar. 6-June 13. .
Mar. 20-May23.
Item
Accounting serv-
ices.
Withholding tax.
Loan payable.
Transportation.
Do.
Loan receivable.
Travel re trials;
living expenses.
Expenses, nalicnal
speaking tour,
and mainte-
nance.
Net salary.
Research and writ-
ing.
Legal fee and ex-
penses.
Net salary.
Mats.
Travel expense.
Net salary.
Do.
Loan payable.
Legal fee and dis-
bursements.
Travel expenses.
Net salary.
Fares, field trips,
etc.
Net salary.
Fares, field trips,
etc.
Legal service an
disbursements.
Legal services.
44 CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Items from detailed statement of expenditures — Continued
Name
Address
Amount
Date
Item
Louis McCabe.
George E. McNeil.
George Marshall...
Victoria Martin.
Civil Rights Congress
of New York.
Do
938 Commercial Trust Bldg.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Washington, D. C
38 East 57th St., New York
City.
284 Quincy St., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
112 East 19th St., New York
City.
.... do
Samuel Neuberger.
Ralph Powe.-
Do
61 Broadway, New York
City.
753 Macon St., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
do
Prisoners Relief.
Dixon L. Pyles
David Rein
Lawrence Rivkin
Esther Romanofi
Hyman Schneider
Beatrice Schneller
Alfred L. Tan^
Violet J. Tarcai.
Barent Ten Eyck
Trade Union Agency...
Transport Workers
Union Local 206.
UREMW...
Harry F. Ward
Rev. L. W. Wertz.
Mortimer B. Wolf.
423).« East Capitol St.,
Jackson, Miss.
1105 K St. NW., Washing-
ton, D. C.
112 East 19th St., New York
City.
203 West 74th St., New
York City.
130-04 226th St., Laurelton,
N. Y.
152 AVest 72d St., New York
City.
350 Fifth Ave., New York
Citv.
8407 AVoodland Ave., Cleve-
land, Ohio.
40 Wall St., New York
City.
17 East 49th St.. New York
City.
420 Gravier St., New Or-
leans. La.
1029 Vermont Ave., Wash-
ington, D. C.
IIIG Arcadian Way, Pali-
sade, N. J.
P. O. Box 909, Hamlet,
N. C.
1501 Broadway
$1, 000. 00
2, 500. 00
150.00
991. 35
1, 650. 00
742. 80
219. 92
683. 10
471. 32
836. 55
2, 750. 00
300.00
50.00
817. 05
62.85
14.84
100. 00
13.92
1, 500. 00
77.51
214. 80
90.00
95.12
60.00
50.00
June 20.
May 26-
Mar2...
Jan. 10-Jime27..
Mar. 17-June 12.
Jan. 10-Junel6..
Jan. 22
Jan. 10-June27..
Jan. 10-May23..
Jan. 10-June 19..
Jan. IG-June 19..
June 19
Apr. 16
Jan. 10-Mar. 28 _
June 27
Jan. 10-Mar. 28.
June 20--
May 15
May 22.-
Jan. 23-May 23..
Jan 16
do---
May 2-29--
May 23-- -
May 23- June 13.
Total sum of ex-
penditures.
53. 101. 92
Legal services.
Do.
Loan payable.
Net salary.
Loan receivable.
Refund, share o(
contributions,
advance.
Fare and field ex-
penses.
Net salary.
Field trips, fares,
expense and serv-
ice.
Aid given to ^4
prisoners and
their families.
Legal fee.
Do.
Field expenses and
fare.
Net salary.
Do.
Do.
Legal disburse-
ments.
Refund on fleld
trip fare.
Legal fee.
Workmen's com-
pensation, insur-
ances, etc.
Field expenses.
Rental, DC oflBce.
Field trip fares.
Field expenses
Legal fee.
Civil Rights Congress of New York
112 East Nineteenth Street, New York, N. Y.
Statement filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the Lobby-
ing Act, January 10, 1947.
contributions
Contributions of $500 or more:
Dashiell Hammett, 15 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York, N. Y.
Civil Rights Congress, 205 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York, N. Y.
Paul Crosbie, 17 East Forty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y.
Contributions not listed above $18, 785. 00
Total' contributions. _ 23, 035. 00
expenditures
Expenditures of $10 or more (see list attached).. $21, 515. 89
Expenditures not listed 216. 08
Total expenditures 21 ''31, 97
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Items froin detailed statement of expenditures
45
Name
Address
Amount
Date
Item
American Cru-sade
Against Lynching.
Louis Colman
23 West 26th St.. New York.
39 Charlton St., New York..
342 West 19th St., New York.
1152 Rogers Ave.. Brooklyn .
278 East 45th St., Brooklyn..
208 East 28th St.. New York.
3720 Ave. L. Brooklyn
Address unknown ._
$430.00
/ 1,761.23
\ 118.84
/ 1,175.73
\ 52. 90
/ 1,161.84
\ 40. 70
f 1,115.21
\ 186. 55
/ 635. 65
\ 1.25
/ 533. 52
1 2.20
290. 40
80.58
/ 234. 98
\ 10.85
350. 42
67. 93
1, 492. 50
50.00
97.71
41.20
25.40
49.00
11.65
40.00
56.00
75.00
41.00
80.00
100. 00
75.00
40.50
126. 00
51.30
4, 585. 59
40.66
18.84
52.04
11.00
Oct. 1
Exchange for rail-
}0ct. 3-Jan. 9....
|....do
way ticket.
(Net wages.
< M iscellaneous fares
Robert Freeman
Lawrence Rivkin
Jacques Sartisky
Ethel Livingston
ICToll^ Diinn
I and expenses.
Net wages.
< M iscellaneous fares
}....do
jOct. 3-Jan. 2
}Oct. 3-Jan. 9....
|....do
[ and exiicnses.
iNct wages.
i M iscell aneous fares
I and expenses.
(Net wages,
•j M iscell aneous fares
I and expenses.
fXet wages.
\ Fares.
Net wages.
■^Miscellaneous ex-
Alice Q. Harris . .
J
Oct. 3-Nov. 15..
Nov. 15-22-
}nov. 21-Jan. 2..
Nov. 21-Dec. 26.
Dec. 19-Jan..2...
Oct. 4-Dec. 4....
Oct. 7-
l penscs.
Net wages.
Rosalind Lazar ...
200 Bennett Ave., NeiS York.
1971 Grand Ave., Bron.'c
320 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn.
7 Morton PI.. New York
7 East 44th St., New York..
299 Broadway, New York...
41 East 14th St., New York..
303 West 4th St., New York.
305 Riverside Dr., New
York.
261 Broadway, New York...
65 Ashland Ave., Buffalo,
N. Y.
208 East 28th St., New York_
278 East 45th St., Brooklyn..
Care of Weinstein, 1245 East
Parkway, Brooklyn.
1152 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn..
23-31 29th St., Astoria
28 Greenwich Ave., New
York.
817 Avenue N, Brooklyn
100 5th Ave., New York
50 East 13th St., New York.
112 Park Ave., New York...
205 E. 42d St., New York...
2100 Beekman PI., Brook-
lyn.
650 Crown St., Brooklyn
41 East 14th St., New York..
Address unknown
Do.
Herbert Shore
fNet wages.
I Faros.
Net wages.
Sara Fields
Sony Lipton
Do.
Moss & Arnold Co
Advertising.
Legal expenses.
Gensup Stationery
Dorothy Kley
Nov. 22
Stationery.
Nov. 4-Dec. 23..
Nov. 26-Dec. 23-
Dec. 3
Organizing activ-
Hpnry .Tftpnhy
ity, CRC chap-
ter.
Do.
Hprtrim Tin.lcprman
Legal expenses.
JaD6 Brant
Dec. 18
Organizing activ-
Dec. 20
ity, CRC chap-
ter.
Loan payable.
Jacques Sartisky
Herbert Goldenberg
do.
Do.
do
Do.
do.
Do.
Bernard Moss
do-
Do.
Eugene P. Connolly
Seymour Rosenberg
Louis Fleischer
Dec. 23
Dinner tickets.
.do
Auditing.
Dec. 24
Legal.
Daily Worker
Dec. 30.
Advertising.
do
Purchase of collec-
for Human Welfare.
Civil Rights Congress..
Sadie Freedman
Dorothy Lipson
Gensup Stationery
Olin Montgomery
Oct. 7-Dec. 27...
Nov. 4-Dec. 23..
Nov. 26-Jan. 6..
Oct.24-Dec.9.-.
Dec. 5-19
tion boxes.
Contributions.
Organizing actlv
ity, CRC chap-
ter.
Do.
Stationery.
Personal assist-
ance.
Total expendi-
21,515.89
-
tures.
Civil Rights Congress of New York
112 East Nineteenth Street, New York, N. Y.
Statement filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the Lobby-
ing Act, April 2, 1947.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions of $500 or more:
Civil Rights Congress, 205 East Forty-second Street, New York, N. Y.
Dashiell Hammett, 15 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York, N. Y.
Contributions not listed above $11. 662. 07
Total contributions. 14, 939. 37
46
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
EXPENDITURES
Expenditures of $10 or more (see list attached) $14, 784. 31
Expenditures not listed 42. 30
Total expenditures 14, 826. 61
Items from detailed statement of expenditures
Name
Address
Amount
Dorothy Kley..
Sadie Freedman
Evelyn Fischer
William S. Gailmore^__
United Office and Pro-
fessional Workers
Union.
Ray Shapiro
Molly Dunn
Lawrence Rlvkin
Robert Freeman
Ethel Livingston
Goldie Davidofif_
Clifford C. Davis
Seymour Rosenberg,..
Gensup Stationery
Civil Rights Congress.
Louis Colman
Moss & Arnold Co
Albert E. Kahn_.
Total expend!
tures.
300 West 4th St., New York,
2100 Beekman PL, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
173-34 Effington Ave.,
Flnshin?, N. Y.
55 West 55th St., New York.
30 East 29th St., New York.
338 East 20th St., New York.
3720 Ave. L, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1152 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
342 West 19th St., New York.
20S East 28th St., New York.
56 Cannon St., New York...
503 West 148th St., New
York.
817 Ave. N, Brooklyn, N. Y.
41 East 14th St, New York..
205 East 42d St., New York.
39 Charlton St., New York..
7 East 44th St., New York..
245 West 2oth St., New
York City.
$14.41
15.60
16.36
18.00
150. 00
28.50
385.50
.40
404. 25
.45
691.35
2.00
334. 75
.50
514. 25
40.45
634.95
4.60
75.00
50.48
477. 00
1, 600. 00
8.75
973. 50
173. 25
633. 00
70.00
Date
}jan. 14-22.
Jan. 14
Jan. 16-
Jan. 28
Feb. 13-Mar. 26
}jan. 30-Mar. 17.
}jan. 16-Mar. 27.
}....do....
}jan. 16-Mar. 13.
Jan. 16-Mar. 27.
Jan. 16
}jan. 30-Mar. 27
Mar. 26
Mar. 3-25
>Jan. 15-Mar. 21
jjan. 20..
Mar. 25-..
Mar. 28
^
Item
[Organizing activity,
CKC chapter.
[ Exchanges.-
Organizing activ-
ity, CRC chap-
ter.
Delegate fees.
Lectures.
Exchanges.
Net wages.
Miscellaneous
, fares.
Net wages.
Miscellaneous
. fares.
fXet wages.
\Taxi fares.
'Net wages.
ISIiscellaneous
fares.
Net wages.
Do.
{Xet wages.
Miscellaneous
fares.
Auditing.
Stationery.
(Contributions.
•J Returned loan.
Exchanges.
Net wages.
Miscellaneous
fares and ex-
penses.
Advertising.
Lectui'es.
14, 784. 31
Civil Rights Congress of New York
112 East Nineteenth Street, New York, N. Y.
Statement filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the
Lobbying Act, July 9, 1947.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions of $500 or more: Dashiell Hammett, 15 East 66th
Street, New York, N. Y.
Contributions not listed above $5, 916. 75
Total contributions 7, 916. 75
EXPENDITURES
Expenditures of $10.00 or more (see list attached) $9, 055. 57
Expenditures not listed 48. 05
Total expenditures. 9, 103. 62
CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS
Ilcms from detailed statement oj expenditures
47
Name
Ilorbcrt Shore
Stage for Action
Qensup Stationery Co..
Moss & Arnold
Civil Rights Conprcss..
United Office and Pro-
fessional Workers of
America.
Louis Colman
Clifford C. Davis
Albert E. Kahn
Rev. Ben Richardson..
Richard Yaflee
Betty Sanders
Phil Irving _
Molly Dunn _
Louis Colman
Cliflord C. Davis
Ethel Livingston
Ray Shapiro
Frances Skoy
Lawrence Rivkin
Moses C. Weinman
Emanuel H. Bloch
Total expenditures.
Address
1971 Grand Ave., Bronx,
.\. Y.
130 We-^t 42d St., New York
City.
41 East 14th St., New York
City.
7 East 44th St., New York
City.
205 East 42d St., New York
City.
[so East 29th St., New York
[ City.
39 Charlton St., New York
City.
503 West M8th St., New
York City.
245 West 25th St., New York
Citv.
7th Ave. and 125th St., New
York City.
467 Central Park West, New
York City.
2212 Ditmas Ave., Brooklyn.
N. Y.
215 West 11th St., New York
City.
3720 Ave. L, Brooklyn, N. Y.
39 Charlton St., New York
City.
503 West 148th St., New
York City.
20S East 28th St., New York
City.
338 East 20th St., New York
Citv.
58 East 3d St., New York
City.
1152 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
207 4th Ave., New York City.
299 Broadway, New York
City.
Amount
$30. 00
35.00
44. 01
205.90
125.00
539. 79
30.00
156. 67
60.00
50.00
25.00
30. 00
17.50
25.00
183. 75
1, 150. 50
75.10
917. 15
G3. 70
607. 75
501. 15
1.20
364. 05
4.35
817.05
265. 00
25.00
35.00
9, 055. 57
Date
Apr. 2
Apr. 23
Mar. 26-Junc CO
June 17
jjune 18-23
Apr. 21-May 9.
May 13-Jime 5.
June 5
May 9
do
May 20
June 14
do
Apr. 3-24
} Apr. 3-June 26.
}....do
do...
}....do
}...-do
}..-.do
Apr. 2.
Apr. 30
Item
Fares, etc.
Performance.
Stationery.
Advertising.
fExchanccs.
[Contributions.
fExchanirc
[Union clues.
Exchange.
Do.
Lectures.
Lecture.
Do.
Artist-Perform-
ance.
Singer at meeting.
Net wages.
Do.
Miscellaneous fares
and expenses.
Net wa'jes.
Miscpllancous fares
and expenses.
Net wages.
fNet wages.
\ Fares.
|Nct wages.
\ Fares.
(Net wages.
< Miscellaneous fares
t and expenses.
Legal expenses.
Do.
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